Shiplate Slait
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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 Shown within Somerset
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| Area of Search | Avon |
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| Grid reference | ST365567 |
| Coordinates | 51°18′21″N 2°54′44″W / 51.30586°N 2.91232°WCoordinates: 51°18′21″N 2°54′44″W / 51.30586°N 2.91232°W |
| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 33.9 hectares (0.339 km2; 0.131 sq mi) |
| Notification | 1987 |
| Natural England website | |
Shiplate Slait (grid reference ST365567) is a 33.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Loxton, within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, North Somerset, notified in 1987.
The site is underlain by Clifton Down Limestone, Burrington Oolite, Black Rock Dolomite and Black Rock Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series. There is Dolomitic Conglomerate (Triassic Mudstone) at the lower edges of the site. The site has unimproved calcicolous grassland, some of which is mixed with dwarf-shrub, mosaics of calcicolous grassland and scrub and woodland. Four nationally rare types of vegetation form most of the grassland including Somerset Hair-grass (Koeleria vallesiana), Dwarf Sedge (Carex humilis) and Spring Cinquefoil (Potentilla tabernaemontani).[1]
[edit] References
- ^ English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 16 July 2006)
