Conservation Status: N
First Record: ? Fisher c.1780. Relhan,1785
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Wimpole, WW Newbould, Bab.1860.
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Aceras...I have been informed has been found growing in this parish [Whittlesford] but I confess I have never been so fortunate as to find it. I believe my informant must have been mistaken and taken the Tway blade for the one in question. Maynard MS.14:58,CRO.
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Barton, Churchill Babington, n.d., ex Hb Bunbury, CGE [not found].
Near Red Cross Tolegate, [47-55-] J Gedge, Bab.ann.
HASLINGFIELD CHALK PIT 408.516.
Went to the old chalk pit at Haslingfield with Stratton, and found plenty of Aceras anthropophora on the broken slopes at the far end of it. 10.7.1855, Bab.Mem.78.
Hiley and I went to Haslingfield. Found Aceras in the chalk-pit. 11.6.1857, Bab.Mem.85.
Haslingfield old quarry pits. Bab.ann.Relhan,364.
Haslingfield, 11.7.1857, n.c., CGE.
Old Quarry, Haslingfield. Bab. 1860.
Haslingfield, 1863, FA Hanbury, BM.
There is a specimen in Herb. Brit. Mus. gathered by Mr FA Hanbury at Haslingfield in May, 1863; West,1898,257.
...and I saw it growing there, but very sparingly, in June 1895. West,1898,257.
Haslingfield, AS Shrubbs, 5.7.1899, CGE.
Haslingfield, AS Shrubbs, 22.6.1901, CGE.
Haslingfield chalk pit, RH Lock, 26.6.1901, CGE.
Haslingfield, FR Tennant, 7.1901, CGE.
Haslingfield, Mrs EM Walker, n.d., CGE.
Haslingfield, AJ Crosfield, 29.5.1913, CGE.
Haslingfield, ND Simpson, 1913.
Abundant, Haslingfield Chalk Pit, WH Mills, 11.6.1913.
Haslingfield Chalk Pit, nearly over, 27.6.1915, WH Mills.
Haslingfield Chalk Pit, 18 spikes, 19.6.1930, Mills,ann.
Haslingfield Chalk Pit, at least 20 plants there,1939, JL Crosby.
Haslingfield Chalk Pit, 4 plants, HC Gilson, 1941.
In the usual place at Haslingfield, I saw eight very fine plants, much better than I can remember seeing before, probably due to wet season, JL Crosby, 1946; a few days later, twelve plants found here, JJA[?].
Haslingfield Chalk Pit, 5 spikes, 10.6.1950, Mills,ann.
Haslingfield Chalk Pit, 4 plants seen in flower in the pit at Haslingfield, MCF Proctor, 1951.
Haslingfield, 407.517, 2 plants, PM Garnett, 1952.
Haslingfield, chalk pit, 29.5.1961, P.J.Bourne, ann.CTW.
Clunch pit bank, Haslingfield ,1 plant, 6.1964, C Turner.
1 plant, RJ Pankhurst & C Turner, 6.1972.
Chalk pit, on bank opp. entrance, Haslingfield, 2 plants, AJ Worland, c.1974.
site bulldozed, AJ Worland & G Crompton, Pop. map & Col. slides, 1977,
Floor of chalk pit, Haslingfield, 4 flowering plants, Heather Wood & G Crompton, 6.6.1978, Pop. map & CP.
Haslingfield pit, 3 plants, R Payne, 1980.
Haslingfield Pit, none found, R Payne,.1981.
Haslingfield, (to the east of 1978 site, which is now scrubbed up), 2 fl. spikes, G Crompton, Colour prints and Pop. map & J Green, 9.6.1988.
Haslingfield, 6 flowers, in same area as in 1988, G Crompton, Colour prints & Pop. map, J Green & K Tucker, 17.6.1991.
Haslingfield, 5 fl. plants, G Crompton & K Tucker, 2.6.1992.
Haslingfield, 1 fl. plant, by a v. small 'log', JCA Rathmell, 6.1997.
Haslingfield, about 9 plants, incl. plant by 'log'. JCA Rathmell, 24.5.1998.
Haslingfield, 42 plants, Pop. map, G Crompton and J Bulleid, 29.5.1998.
Haslingfield, base line set up and plants mapped by co-ordinates; 54 fl. plants, G Crompton, J Bulleid, S Hearle, M Woolnough and Ian Hysom, 4.6.1998.
c.40 flowering plants (mostly over and therefore an under-count), 1.7.2000, Steve Hartley.
41 flowering plants, 'but may well have missed some', JCA Rathmell, 27.5.2001.
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BARRINGTON HILL
Once grew near Linton Rare J[oshua] C[larke], n.d., [Hb ?Gibson], SWN.
Barrington Hill (lost). Bab.ann.Relhan,364.
Barrington Hill (until recently). Bab.1860.
LINTON AREA
Ophrys anthropophora Linton Fisher ann. Berkenhout,251.
In a Close near Linton. Relhan,1785;1802;1820.
Gathered near Linton, 6.1803, Rev. Leathes, IPS, & BEC.,1933,679.
Linton. Henslow ann. 2:364.
At Linton. rare. Spurgin & Clarke, Walden Fl. Hb. 1832. SWN.
Linton, Cambs, Miss Henslow, JSH, n.d., CGE.
To Linton. this was the first time that the botanical party went there. I then first saw growing... Aceras anthropophora,... 23.5.1833. Bab.Mem.16.
Linton, CC Babington. JS Henslow, 23.5.1833, CGE.
Linton, JS Henslow, 23.5.1833, CGE.
Linton. Bab.ann.Relhan,364.
Linton, n.c., 1846, [Hb ?Gibson], 2 spec.SWN.
Linton. Bab.1860,226.
HILDERSHAM FURZE HILLS
Ophrys anthropophora Aceras anthropophora Furze hills near Hildersham. 1835,Coleman(a),70.
Furze hills Hildersham. Coleman(b).
Aceras Furze Hills, Hildersham. Rev. WH Coleman. N.B.G.
in a neighbouring copse [Hildersham Furze hills]. Gibson,1848,309.
...we went to Hildersham, and examined the Furze Hills, where we found Aceras anthropophorum... 2.6.1857, Bab.Mem.85.
Furze-hills, Hildersham. Bab.1860.
ABINGTON
We made a small party to botanize near Linton. Found near Abington... The "Bee" and "Man" orchises were only just showing above the ground. 24.5.1837. Bab.Mem.61.
[Haslingfield] There is no other recent Cambs record, and it is probably extinct both on Hildersham Furze Hills and on Barrington Hill. West,1898,257.
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LITTLE ABINGTON edges of pit, 529.500.
4 plants, (2 had flowered), JC Faulkner, 1954, photo only, 1956, CGE. (Dr H. Mills).
Disused pit, Lt Abington, 529.500, no plants found either at north end of pit on roots of beech (SM Walter's site), nor on west edge, which has been bulldozed of Crataegus bushes and exposed a rabbit burrow–soil is very disturbed and potatoes and daffodils have been dumped on the spot, JC Faulkner & G Crompton, 9.6.1977.
Searched both areas again, and also especially in an area of chalk grassland with Polygala and Origanum, JC Faulkner, B Jackson & G Crompton, 6.6.1988.
BABRAHAM
Babraham, Mr Josh Clark, Bab.1860.
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Westley. Henslow ann. 2:364.
Westley. Bab. 1860.
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Devil's Ditch, JS Henslow, 11.6.1828, CGE.
Devils Ditch. Henslow ann. 2:364.
The following plants & Insects occurred this day in an excursion to the Devils Ditch... Ophrys anthropophora. A single specimen found on the Devils Ditch, near the running gap. 12.6.1828, Jenyns NHJ,5:122. Back to top
