Location rankings

Rank	Title	Description	Species total
31	Malling Down Sussex Wildlife Trust Reserve	Superb chalk-grassland and scrub with many typical and rare flowers and invertebrates, all within walking distance of Lewes town centre. 1/8th of all the species of beetle in the UK have been recorded at Malling Down!	1679
32	Filsham Reedbed Sussex Wildlife Trust Reserve	A reedbed with ditches and pools set in a river valley floodplain between Bexhill and Hastings.	1638
33	Whiteknights Park	The main campus of the University of Reading. Records from staff and students both past and present, as well as visiting recorders. For more information and complete species lists, see our biodiversity blog.	1562
34	Marline Valley Sussex Wildlife Trust Reserve	Close to the town of Hastings lies a deep wooded valley, or ghyll. At the bottom of this valley runs a stream, babbling over sandstone. Many mosses, liverworts and ferns are the reason for the site's designation as a SSSI but the neutral meadows abover the ghyll are also fantastically rich for wildlife.	1446
35	SP5595(ish), Whetstone, Leicestershire [M.P. Skevington]	This is the 1km square that I used for the 2013 1000 in 1km square challenge. It is half of SP5595 and half of SP5695, which conveniently includes my garden but excludes the part of SP5595 that is west of the M1 that fully bisects the square. I've lived here since 1994, and only recorded birds until 1999 when I started getting interesting in moths. I've run a garden moth trap regularly since 2000, but anything else has been casual additions until the 2013 challenge when I looked at bit harder.	1438
36	AJM's garden, Shotesham (Norfolk)	Fairly regular moth-trapping since 2006 plus other bits and pieces recorded sporadically. Includes birds/mammals seen from the garden too. Garden is a subset of the TM2499 site in these rankings. Last updated 8th October 2018	1397
37	JN Garden, Orton Waterville	A suburban garden, home to regular moth recording over the last 4 years (current moth list heading towards 800) plus miscellaneous other taxa. Approx 1/3 acre in size, with a pond, native planting, woodland border, annuals and some rough grass.	1320
38	Rothamsted Trap 664, Wheldrake, nr York	Running since May 2010, this light trap is part of the long-running Rothamsted Insect Survey and contributes data essential to the long-term monitoring of moth populations. 0.000025ha.	1217
39	Bekynton House	Richard Comont's garden in Sutton Courtenay, South Oxfordshire - just under 1/4 of an acre, including the house, scene of regular moth trapping and ad hoc other recording between 2011 and the end of 2014	1185
40	Walters Ash, Buckinghamshire	Neil Fletcher's garden. Regular moth-trapping and ad hoc recording over 15 years in semi-rural garden adjacent to Naphill Common.	1122

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