Cleeve Hill SSSI, Somerset
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 valley of the Washford River. 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).
References
- ^ "Cleeve Hill" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 9 September 2006.