Dancersend Waterworks

{{Short description|Protected area in Buckinghamshire, England}}

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|name= Dancersend Waterworks

|aos= Buckinghamshire

|interest= Biological

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|area= 4.0 hectares

|notifydate=1989

|map=[http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271003668%27 Magic Map]

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Dancersend Waterworks is a 4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Spencersgreen south of Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire. It was formerly a private waterworks supplying the Rothschild Dancersend estate, and is now owned by Thames Water. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.{{cite web|url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003668.pdf|title=Dancersend Waterworks citation|series=Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|accessdate=10 October 2015|archive-date=24 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124130150/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003668.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271003668%27|title=Map of Dancersend Waterworks|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|accessdate= 10 October 2015}} A cooling pond within the Thames Water site is a Grade II listed building.{{cite web|url=http://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1418490|title=Cooling Pond, List entry Number: 1418490|publisher=Historic England|accessdate= 10 October 2015}}

The site is an area of artificial banks, basins and plateaux in a chalk valley bottom, which has an unusually wide variety of herbs, grasses and shrubs. There is a badger sett and a range of butterfly and bird species. Grassland areas are rich in orchids, and there is some scrub and woodland.

The site on Bottom Road has no public access.