Chawridge Bourne

Chawridge Bourne
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location of Chawridge Bourne.
Area of searchBerkshire
Grid referenceSU 894 736[1]
Coordinates51°27′18″N 00°42′54″W / 51.45500°N 0.71500°W / 51.45500; -0.71500
InterestBiological
Area9.4 hectares (23 acres)[1]
Notification date1983[1]
Location mapMagic Map

Chawridge Bourne is a 9.4-hectare (23-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire, England[1][2] Part of the site is a 5-hectare (12-acre) nature reserve called Chawridge Bank, which is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.[3]

Etymology

The name Chawridge is first attested in a charter of 942, which includes the Old English phrase "on ceawan hrycges hagan" ("to the enclosure of ceawa's ridge").[4] The word ceawan here was long thought to be a personal name attested only here and in the place-names Chacombe, Chaureth and East and West Challow, in which case Chawridge meant "the ridge belonging to Ceawa".[5]: 4 [6] In the 2020s, it was suggested that Old English had a word cēawe or cēawa, meaning "jackdaw", in which case Chawridge could have meant "jackdaw ridge".[7] As well as appearing in Chawridge Bourne, the name also appears in the neighbouring sites of Chawridge Manor Farm, Charriage Lane, Chawridge Mead, and Chawridge Gorse.[4]

Ecology

This linear site is named after the stream called Chawridge Bourne, which runs through it. Half of it is unimproved grassland, which is managed by sheep grazing. There are also areas of scrub and broadleaved woodland. On the east side there is an ancient parish boundary hedge which has diverse tree flora.[8]

Fauna

The site has the following animals[8][9]

Mammals

Birds

Invertebrates

Flora

The site has the following flora:[8][10]

Trees

Plants

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Chawridge Bourne". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Map of Chawridge Bourne". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Chawridge Bank". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  4. 1 2 Margaret Gelling, The Place-Names of Berkshire, English Place-Name Society, 49–51, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973–76), I 37.
  5. ↑ Richard Coates, 'On Some Controversy Surrounding Gewissae / Gewissei, Cerdic and Ceawlin', Nomina, 13 (1989–90), 1–11.
  6. ↑ John Insley, 'Britons and Anglo-Saxons', in Kulturelle Integration und Personennamen im Mittelalter, ed. by Wolfgang Haubrichs, Christa Jochum-Godglück (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019), §4.
  7. ↑ Hall, Alaric. "Two new(ish) Old English Words for "Jackdaw": cawe/cāwe and cēawe". Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland. 41: 107–34. doi:10.17613/6p6n9-9b307.
  8. 1 2 3 "Chawridge Bourne citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  9. ↑ Opening Times. "Chawridge Bank | Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust". Bbowt.org.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Condition of SSSI Units for Site Chawridge Bourne SSSI". Natural england. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
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