Redwell Wood is a 52.8-hectare (130-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near South Mimms in Hertfordshire. The local planning authority is split between Hertsmere Borough Council and Welwyn Hatfield District Council. The site has ancient and secondary woodland, heath and scrub. The woodland canopy is dominated by pedunculate oak. Ground flora include bluebells and enchanter’s-nightshade, while heathland species include heather and the rare creeping willow.
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The Black Horse is a Grade II listed public house on Blackhorse Lane in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, England.
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The White Hart is a Grade II listed public house in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, England.
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South Mimms is a village in the civil parish of South Mimms and Ridge, in the borough of Hertsmere in Hertfordshire, England. The village is near the junction of the M25 motorway with the A1 motorway; it gives it name to the South Mimms services at that junction. At the 2021 census the built up area had a population of 661 and the civil parish of South Mimms had a population of 874. The civil parish subsequently merged with the neighbouring parish of Ridge in 2023 to form the new parish of South Mimms and Ridge.
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Castle Lime Works Quarry is a 1.6 hectares geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near South Mimms in Hertfordshire. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The site is a disused chalk quarry and according to Natural England:
This reveals extensive piping in the top of the chalk resulting from solution at the Chalk - Tertiary sediment interface. Believed to have formed during the Tertiary and Pleistocene, it is the finest exposure of clay-filled pipes in the Chalk Karst of England.
The site is on private land and there is no public access.
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The de Havilland Aircraft Museum, formerly the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, is a volunteer-run aviation museum in London Colney, Hertfordshire, UK.
The Museum's mission is to preserve and communicate the de Havilland Heritage to ensure that current and future generations of all ages will understand de Havilland’s contribution to innovative British Aviation technology.
The collection was originally built around the definitive prototype and restoration shops for the de Havilland Mosquito and now also includes several examples of the de Havilland Vampire – the third operational jet aircraft in the world. The museum is the largest such museum devoted to one manufacturer in the country.
There is access from Blackhorse Lane.
See also
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire