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Cleeve Hill SSSI, Somerset

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Cleeve Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
LocationSomerset
Grid referenceST056428
InterestBiological
Area15.1 hectares (0.151 km2; 0.058 sq mi)
Notification1989 (1989)
Natural England website

Cleeve Hill (grid reference ST056428) is a 15.1 hectare (37.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Old Cleeve and Watchet in Somerset, notified in 1989.

The site covers a moderate to steeply sloping south face of the Washford River Valley. It supports a rich and diverse calcareous grassland community with associated mixed woodland and scrub. The site contains two species of plant which are nationally rare in Great Britain, Nit-grass (Gastridium ventricosum) and Rough Marsh-mallow (Althaea hirsuta).[1]

References

  1. ^ "Cleeve Hill" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 2006-09-09.