Special areas of conservation
Pasturefields SAC
Pasture fields SAC (nr Great Heywood, Stafford) is the only known remaining example in the UK of a natural salt spring with inland saltmarsh vegetation. The vegetation consists of red fescue Festuca rubra, with common saltmarsh-grass Puccinellia maritima, lesser sea-spurrey Spergularia marina, saltmarsh rush Juncus gerardii and sea arrowgrass Triglochin maritimum in the most saline situations. Further info about its designation can be found on the Joint Nature Conservtion Committee website.