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Freely draining acid loamy soils over rock (13) |
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Texture: | Loamy |
Drainage: | Freely draining |
Fertility: | Low |
Land Cover: | Grassland and rough grazing |
Habitats: | Steep acid upland pastures dry heath and moor; bracken gorse and oak woodlands |
Topsoil Carbon: | Medium |
Mostly Drains To: | Local groundwater and the river network |
Water Protection Issues: | Some risk of soil erosion during reseeding of fields and from unmetalled roads accessing higher land and scaring by sheep on very steep banks |
General Cropping Guidance: | Land mostly steeply sloping and with restricted mechanised access; suited to grassland with potential for year round grazing |
0313a DUNWELL |
0313b POWYS |
0611a MALVERN |
0611b MORETONHAMPSTEAD |
0611c MANOD |
0611d WITHNELL 1 |
0611e WITHNELL 2 |
0612a PARC |
0612b MOOR GATE |
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