Aller Hill

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Aller Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location within Somerset
Area of Search Somerset
Grid reference ST408291
Coordinates 51°03′29″N2°50′46″W / 51.05817°N 2.84608°W / 51.05817; -2.84608 Coordinates: 51°03′29″N2°50′46″W / 51.05817°N 2.84608°W / 51.05817; -2.84608
InterestBiological
Area18.4 hectares (0.184 km2; 0.071 sq mi)
Notification 1988 (1988)
Natural England website

Aller Hill (grid reference ST408291 ) is an 18.4 hectare (45.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Aller in Somerset, notified in 1988.

The site contains three species of plant which are nationally rare and a further three which are of restricted distribution in Somerset. The central area contains a sward dominated by sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina) in combination with yellow oat grass (Trisetum flavescens) and quaking-grass (Briza media). Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) forms a major component of the sward with rough marsh-mallow (Althaea hirsuta) and nit-grass (Gastridium ventricosum), two nationally rare species, also present. [1]

Aller and Beer Woods on the slopes of the hill are also designated as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

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References

  1. "Aller Hill" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 12 August 2006.