Coordinates: 52°18′07″N 0°29′13″E / 52.302°N 0.487°E / 52.302; 0.487

Red Lodge Heath

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Red Lodge Heath
Site of Special Scientific Interest
LocationSuffolk
Grid referenceTL 697 700[1]
InterestBiological
Area20.8 hectares[1]
Notification2005[1]
Location mapMagic Map

Red Lodge Heath is a 20.8-hectare (51-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Red Lodge in Suffolk.[1][2]

Habitats on this site are chalk grassland, dry acid grassland, lichen heath, wet woodland and ponds. It has nationally important assemblages of rare plants and invertebrates, including a nationally important population of the nationally rare five-banded tailed digger wasp (Cerceris quinquefasciata), also commonly known as the Five-banded weevil-wasp.[3] It has several other invertebrate species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and plants include the nationally rare smooth rupturewort.[4]

There is access to the site from Turnpike Road.

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