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Benthall Edge Wood SSSI 83
Berkshire 30, 69, 86, 155
Bevan, Jane 126
bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) 28, 79,
123
Biodiversity Action Plan 82, 185
birch 2, 62, 82–3, 104, 144, 146,
167, 181
Birmingham 86, 133, 163, 167
Bishop Middleton quarry, Durham 81
bittern 10, 34, 85, 102–3
Black Act (1723) 69, 124
Black Death 4, 7, 13, 15
black grouse 10, 100
black hairstreak butterfly 34
black rat 12–13, 60, 190
black redstart 166
blackbird 9, 52, 173, 177
blackcap 23
black-headed gull 180
black-necked grebe 85
black-tailed godwit 32, 179
blackthorn 2, 46, 104, 106, 144
bladder campion (Silene maritime) 82
bladder senna (Colutea
arborescens) 62
bladderworts 112
blanket bog 4
bleak (fish) 85
Blenerhasset, Thomas 26, 35
Blenheim, Oxfordshire 123
Blickling Hall, Norfolk 26, 118 ,
118, 138
blue tit 173, 177 see also tits
bluebell 151, 175
bog-moss 78, 123 see also Sphagnum
Bowland, Lancashire 29
Box, J. 81
box 62, 123, 130
box-traps 72, 134
Boys, John 104
bracken (Pteris aquiline) 25, 27–9, 67 ,
88, 100, 144–5, 167, 184
brambles 144
brambling 10, 177
Braunceston, Northamptonshire 56
Braybrooke, Northamptonshire 45
bream 16
brent geese 32
brick kilns 26
Bridgeman, Charles 127
Bridgewater canal 77
Bristol 167
Brittany 11
Brixworth, Northamptonshire 44
broad-leaved cudweed (Filago
pyramidata) 40
Bronze Age 4, 8, 13, 29
broom (Sarothamnus scoparius) 25–6,
167
brown hare 13, 42, 190 see also hare
brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) 60, 190
Brown, Lancelot (Capability) 116,
127–9
bryophytes 24, 82, 135, 173
buck’s-horn plantain (Plantago
coronopus) 99
Buckenham, Norfolk 50
Buckinghamshire 30, 63, 84, 101,
10 4, 151, 155, 181
buckwheat 40
buddleia (Buddleja davidii) 167, 171,
177, 179, 190
bullfinch 52, 54, 71, 174, 176
buntings 23, 103
buttercups 32, 167
corn buttercup 40
butterflies 23, 31, 34, 146, 154, 172,
174, 176–7, 187
buzzard 31, 34, 52, 124–5, 148,
154, 156
Byng, John 123–4
caddis flies 161
Caird, James 94 , 97
calaminarian grasslands 61, 82
Cambridge 101, 173
Cambridgeshire 28, 33, 52, 97, 103,
105, 107 , 141 , 157, 159, 187
Canadian golden rod 171
Canadian pondweed 85, 112
canals, ornamental 62–3, 128
canals or ‘navigations’ 77–8, 83–5, 84 ,
86–9, 99, 112, 125, 151, 184
canary grass 179
carabids 154
carp (Cyprinus carpio) 16
carrion crow 52, 177, 180 see also
hooded crow
cats 166
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