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Cuckoo Bank
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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
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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
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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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