Cleeve Hill SSSI, Somerset

Cleeve Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
	Location within Somerset
Location	Somerset
Grid reference	ST056428
Coordinates	51°10′36″N3°21′07″W / 51.17662°N 3.35181°W
Interest	Biological
Area	15.1 hectares (0.151 km2; 0.058 sq mi)
Notification	1989
	Natural England website

Last updated August 22, 2025

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).^[1]

References

↑ "Cleeve Hill" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 9 September 2006.

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[1] "Cleeve Hill" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 9 September 2006.

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