Interest due to the presence of rare woodland beetles including: Ctesias serra, Phloiotrya vaudoueri and Eledona agricola. The 2.37 hectares of Ashton Court Meadow is managed as a nature reserve by the Avon Wildlife Trust. It contains a wide range of flowering plants, including wild carrot, yellow-wort and field scabious. Some unusual parasitic plants are also found here, such as common broomrape which feeds off clovers, and yellow rattle, which feeds partly off grass. Clarken Combe, at the western edge of the estate, is a woodland area with a range of plant species, including narrow-lipped helleborine, which grows here in small numbers under beech. In 2002 a 700-year-old oak tree, called the Domesday Oak, was selected by The Tree Council as one of 50 Great British Trees. In 2011 a crack appeared in the trunk and oak support beams were fitted to support the tree. The supports were only partly successful and a section of the tree collapsed; the remaining part of the tree was pruned to reduce the weight of the surviving section. See also List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset References Bibliography External links Photos and information on Ashton Court estate Country houses in Somerset Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1998 Parks and open spaces in Bristol Houses completed in 1633 Grade I listed buildings in Bristol Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol Grade II listed buildings in Bristol Buildings and structures in North Somerset History of Somerset Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset Grade II listed buildings in North Somerset Grade II* listed buildings in North Somerset Historic house museums in Bristol Music venues in Bristol Structures on the Heritage at Risk register in Somerset Grade II* listed houses in Somerset History of Bristol Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Bristol 1633 establishments in England World War II prisoner of war camps in England Gardens by Humphry Repton