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Cuckoo Bank (previously known as Bleak House Opencast Site)
North of Chasewater

Condition of SSSI (English Nature Web Site)
Operations likely to damage the Special Interest of the Site
Reptiles and Amphibians of Cuckoo Bank


Looking south to Chasewater - September 2004 
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Map of Cuckoo Bank by Graham Evans
© 2006
 OR CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE SAME MAP as a pdf file in Acrobat Reader (you can enlarge it with this version)


The above map is copyright © G Evans 2004
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English Nature SSSI Map of Biddulph's Pool & No Man's Bank
No. 5 Area was lost to opencast coal for several years and is now being converted back into
Lowland Heath with scattered pools and plantations.  

  
The above Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland


Cuckoo Bank looking south to Chasewater in the distance - March 2004
 


Stonechat habitat on Cuckoo Bank - 28 March 2005  G Evans


Middle Pools - September 2004



Pool East of Eights - September 2004


Pool South of Eights - September 2004


Phragmites Pool - September 2004


View north from Cuckoo Bank to Castle Ring and Cannock Chase
This agricultural area attracted large flocks of Skylarks, finches and buntings in the winter of 2004/5


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