Nightingale Valley

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Nightingale Valley
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location within Somerset
Area of Search Avon
Grid reference ST449751
Coordinates 51°28′20″N2°47′41″W / 51.47217°N 2.79469°W / 51.47217; -2.79469 Coordinates: 51°28′20″N2°47′41″W / 51.47217°N 2.79469°W / 51.47217; -2.79469
Interest Geological
Area 5.4 hectares (0.054 km2; 0.021 sq mi)
Notification 1989 (1989)
Natural England website

Nightingale Valley (grid reference ST449751 ) is a 5.4 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the town of Portishead, North Somerset, notified in 1989.

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This site in the Vale of Gordano is listed because of Pleistocene ‘plateau-deposits’ which include ‘cannon-shot’ gravels, fine sandy gravels and silty gravels with a wide range of erratic lithologies. [1]

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