CYNGOR CEFN GWLAD CYMRU
COUNTRYSIDE COUNCIL FOR WALES
SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST CITATION
NEATH PORT TALBOT
MARGAM MOORS
Date of Notification:
1985
National Grid Reference:
SS 783846
O.S. Maps:
1:50,000 Sheet number: 170
1:25,000 Sheet number: SS 78
Site Area:
108 ha
Description:
The last remaining example of the once extensive coastal levels in West Glamorgan.
Bounded to the seaward by dunes and to landward by high ground, the meadows provide an
agriculturally-managed freshwater habitat which hosts many species of plant on the edge of
their geographical range, and nationally important invertebrates.
Mesotrophic marsh, fen meadow and ditch communities support Flowering-rush
Butomus
umbellatus, Frogbit
Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, Arrowhead
Sagittaria sagittifolia, Cyperus
Sedge
Carex pseudocyperus and Brown Sedge
C. disticha on the edge of their range, with
others such as Lesser Water-plantain
Baldellia ranunculoides, Tubular Water-dropwort
Oenanthe fistulosa and Marsh Helleborine
Epipactis palustris of local interest.
The nationally rare beetle
Haliplus mucronatus, the dragonfly
Sympetrum sanguineum the
regionally rare beetle
Anacaena bipustulata, and the water-bug
Corixa panzeri have all been
found in the ditches.
Remarks:
In close proximity to Kenfig Local Nature Reserve.