Maltby Common LNR

Low Common Nature Reserve occupies the southwestern corner and was established by agreement between Sandbeck Estates and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in 1971. It contains Maltby Low Common, notified as a S.S.S.I. by the Nature Conservancy Council (the forerunner of Natural England) in 1970 under Section 23 of the National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act 1949, revised in 1977, renotified in 1983 under Section 28 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 and revised to include Pieces Bank in 1987. The SSSI was designated because Low Common supports a mosaic of grassland communities with a diversity of flora not known elsewhere in South Yorkshire . The site is owned by the Sandbeck Estate.

Access is from Outgang Lane in Maltby, opposite the entrance to Maltby Colliery and from Stoney Well Lane off Tickhill Road.