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Cribb's Meadow
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Cribb's Meadow path along former railway line.jpg
Path along the disused railway embankment which runs through Cribb's Meadow
Area of Search Leicestershire
Interest Biological
Area 4.2 hectares
Notification 1983
Location map Magic Map

Cribb's Meadow is a 4.2 hectare nature reserve east of Wymondham in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, and is designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest under the name Cribb's Lodge Meadows. It is also a National Nature Reserve and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.

The embankment of a disused railway runs through this ridge and furrow neutral meadow on boulder clay. The diverse flora includes adder's tongue fern, pepper saxifrage, hayrattle and green-winged orchid.

There is access from Fosse Lane, and a footpath runs through the southern end.

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