Sunderton Meadow was purchased by Clanfield Parish Council from Wilson Homes Ltd in 1991 for £18,000.
The Meadow is designated as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation. Some of the most important wildlife sites in Hampshire are protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). But there are many other important sites that also contribute to the ecological network in the County. To safeguard these sites, they are designated as Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs).
South Lane Meadow is recognised for its diversity of grasslands that include oat grass, cocks’ foot and red fescue. There is also some creeping bent, yorkshire fog, rye grass, meadow grasses and tall fescue, ribwort plantain, greater scabious, red bartisa, clovers, field bindweed, hedge bedstraw and yellow rattle. The herb presence is also good.
The Parish Council owns and maintains the Meadow (approximately four acres). It cuts the Meadow grass once a year in Autumn and maintains two paths, one through the centre, linking the pedestrian route from Sunderton Lane to the Meadow and South Lane Medow and a circular route around boundary of the field.
The site is a small field located on the residential edge of Clanfield. It is situated on a chalk bedrock and supports
semi-improved rough grassland but it is isolated from other areas of chalk grassland in the landscape and is nearly
enclosed by housing.
See link to Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre Habitat survey: