Mickfield Meadow is a 1.9-hectare (4.7-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Mickfield in Suffolk .[ 1] [ 2] It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust .[ 3]
Fertilisers and herbicides have never been used on this meadow, and as a result it has a rich variety of flora, including fritillary . The dominant grasses are meadow foxtail , cocksfoot , false oat-grass , timothy and Yorkshire fog .[ 4]
There is access by walking along a field margin from Brook Lane.
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52°13′30″N 1°08′10″E / 52.225°N 1.136°E / 52.225; 1.136
Biological
Abbey Wood, Flixton
Alde–Ore Estuary
Arger Fen
Bangrove Wood, Ixworth
Barking Woods
Barnby Broad and Marshes
Barnham Heath
Berner's Heath
Bixley Heath
Black Ditches, Cavenham
Blaxhall Heath
Blo' Norton and Thelnetham Fens
Bradfield Woods
Breckland Farmland
Breckland Forest
Brent Eleigh Woods
Bugg's Hole Fen, Thelnetham
Burgate Wood
Cavendish Woods
Cavenham–Icklingham Heaths
Cherry Hill and The Gallops, Barton Mills
Chippenhall Green
Combs Wood
Cornard Mere
Crag Pit, Sutton
Cransford Meadow
Deadman's Grave, Icklingham
Deben Estuary
Dew's Ponds
Edwardstone Woods
Elmsett Park Wood
Eriswell Low Warren
Fakenham Wood and Sapiston Great Grove
Fox Fritillary Meadow
Foxhole Heath
Freston and Cutler's Woods with Holbrook Park
Frithy and Chadacre Woods
The Gardens, Great Ashfield
Gipping Great Wood
Glemsford Pits
The Glen Chalk Caves, Bury St Edmunds
Gosbeck Wood
Gromford Meadow
Groton Wood
Gypsy Camp Meadows, Thrandeston
Hay Wood, Whepstead
Horringer Court Caves
High House Meadows, Monewden
Hintlesham Woods
Hopton Fen
How Hill Track
Iken Wood
Ipswich Heaths
Kentwell Woods
Knettishall Heath
Lackford Lakes
Lakenheath Poor's Fen
Lakenheath Warren
Landguard Common
Laurel Farm Meadow
Leiston - Aldeburgh
Lineage Wood & Railway Track, Long Melford
Lingwood Meadows
Little Blakenham Pit
Little Heath, Barnham
London Road Industrial Estate, Brandon
Lordswell Field
Maidscross Hill
Major Farm Meadow
Metfield Meadow
Mickfield Meadow
Middle Wood, Offton
Milden Thicks
Minsmere–Walberswick Heaths and Marshes
Moat Farm Meadows
Monewden Meadows
Nacton Meadows
Newbourne Springs
Newmarket Heath
Norton Wood
Orwell Estuary
Over and Lawn Woods
Pakefield to Easton Bavents
Pakenham Meadows
Pashford Poor's Fen, Lakenheath
Potton Hall Fields, Westleton
RAF Lakenheath
Redgrave and Lopham Fens
Rex Graham Reserve
Riverside House Meadow
Sandlings Forest
Sinks Valley, Kesgrave
Sizewell Marshes
Snape Warren
Sotterley Park
Sprat's Water and Marshes, Carlton Colville
Stallode Wash, Lakenheath
Stanton Woods
Staverton Park and The Thicks, Wantisden
Stour Estuary
Sutton and Hollesley Heaths
Thetford Heaths
Thorpe Morieux Woods
Titsal Wood, Shadingfield
Trundley and Wadgell's Wood, Great Thurlow
Tunstall Common
Wangford Warren and Carr
Weather and Horn Heaths, Eriswell
West Stow Heath
Westhall Wood and Meadow
Weston Fen
Wilde Street Meadow
Wortham Ling
Geological
Alde-Ore Estuary
Aldeburgh Brick Pit
Aldeburgh Hall Pit
Bawdsey Cliff
Bobbitshole, Belstead
Breckland Forest
Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton
Chillesford Church Pit
Corton Cliffs
Crag Farm Pit, Sudbourne
Crag Pit, Aldeburgh
Creeting St Mary Pits
Ferry Cliff, Sutton
Flixton Quarry
Gedgrave Hall Pit
Great Blakenham Pit
Hascot Hill Pit
Holton Pit
Hoxne Brick Pit
Neutral Farm Pit, Butley
Pakefield to Easton Bavents
Ramsholt Cliff
Red House Farm Pit
Red Lodge Heath
Richmond Farm Pit, Gedgrave
Rockhall Wood Pit, Sutton
Round Hill Pit, Aldeburgh
Sandy Lane Pit, Barham
Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich
Stour Estuary
Sudbourne Park Pit
Valley Farm Pit, Sudbourne
Waldringfield Pit