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Langham Pond
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Area of Search Surrey
Interest Biological
Area 26.7 hectares (66 acres)
Notification 1986
Location map Magic Map

Langham Pond is a 26.7-hectare (66-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Egham in Surrey.

The pond and its surrounding alluvial meadows on chalk represent a habitat unique in southern England. The pond is the remains of an oxbow lake, formed when a meander of the River Thames was bypassed. The pond contains all four British duckweeds, three nationally scarce plants and a species of fly which has been found nowhere else in Britain, Cerodontha ornata.

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