It is neutral grassland and mostly only semi-improved.

There are more neutral grasslands and herb species in areas of landslip on the margins of the site.

The site is important for its herb-rich, unimproved, neutral grassland.

It consists of two habitats namely, the marshy grass land and the dry neutral grassland.

Most of the site is covered by free-draining, sandy soils, on which neutral grassland has developed.

Stowell Meadow supports a nationally rare type of traditionally managed wet neutral grassland.

This land, which is semi-improved neutral grassland, is flooded in the winter.

This site is an example of unimproved, herb-rich neutral grassland of a type now rare in Britain.

The meadows are examples of species-rich unimproved neutral grassland, which is now nationally rare.

The site is exceptional because of its size and the variations in the neutral grassland (acid to calcareous).