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Standing Water Sites
Barnsley has eight lengths of canal, 12 notable ditches, 35 ponds and numerous springs. Garden and farm ponds number in the hundreds.
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Ponds & water bodies <2ha 5 Royd Moor Reservoir 6 Scout Dyke Reservoir 7 Small Shaw and 11 Gunthwaite dam 12 Margery wood 15 Black Moor common 16 Silkstone Fall wood 17 Daking Brook 21 Falthwaite and Lowe wood 22 Stainborough Park 23 Rockley Wood 24 Worsbrough reservoir 25 Barnsley Canal (Wilthorpe) 27 Carlton Marsh 29 Wombwell Wood |
30 Short Wood … 34 West Haigh Wood 36 Broomhill Flash 37 Gipsy Marsh 38 Old Moor & Wath Ings 39 Bolton-on-Dearne … 40 Forge Rocher … 41 Wharncliffe Chase … 42 West Wood 43 Sowell Pond 47 Hoyland Bank Wood 49 … Canal (Royston) 51 Barrow Colliery 55 Parkhill Nature Reserve 56 Potter Holes Plantation 60 Rabbit Ings |
Canal stretches 25 Barnsley Canal (Wilthorpe) 49 Barnsley Canal (Royston) Reservoirs >2ha 3 Broadstone Reservoir 4 Ingbirchworth Reservoir 5 Royd Moor Reservoir 6 Scout Dyke Reservoir 24 Worsbrough reservoir 46 Elsecar Reservoir Lakes >2ha 26 Cliffe Wood 48 Bretton Park Italics = included in SSSI |
Local Wildlife Sites
30 Local Wildlife Sites include ponds, two stretches of canal, six reservoirs and two artificial lakes.
Local Wildlife Sites
The criteria for selection as a local wildlife site for standing water is that it regularly supports any of the following:
- a population of white-clawed crayfish
- a colony of water vole
- a good population of great crested newt or assemblage of amphibians
- a good assemblage of dragonfly or damselfly species breeding in the water.
Most LWSs are designated for their overall habitat rather than these criteria; some due to the populations and assemblages of breeding or over-wintering birds which utilise the standing water.
Standing Water Sites
The eight reservoirs in Barnsley range from the acidic moorland reservoirs Winscar and Langsett fed by the headwaters of the river Don and Little Don, and lowland reservoirs like Elsecar and Worsbrough built to provide water for local canals.
The Dearne Valley flood plains from Darton to Bolton on Dearne have a significant number of subsidence flashes, scrapes, residual water bodies and seasonally flooded areas. The largest numbers - and area covered - are around Old Moor, Broomhill Flash, Edderthorpe, Houghton, and now Adwick washlands.
Elsewhere, the largest concentration of ponds are found around areas...
- in the west, around Carlecotes, Hazelehead, the north and south of Penistone, Cannon Hall, and Tin Mill and Wortley Top;
- in the east, around Royston, Cudworth Common, and between Elsecar and Corton- wood.
Stretches of the Barnsley canal can be found near Royston, Monk Bretton and Wilthorpe Marsh and the Dearne and Dove Canal near Wombwell, with two spurs near Worsbrough and Elsecar.
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