Exmoor Coastal Heaths

Exmoor Coastal Heaths
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Shown within Somerset
Area of Search	Somerset & Devon
Grid reference	SS620480
Coordinates	51°12′52″N 3°58′38″W / 51.21448°N 3.97719°W / 51.21448; -3.97719Coordinates: 51°12′52″N 3°58′38″W / 51.21448°N 3.97719°W / 51.21448; -3.97719
Interest	Biological
Area	1,758.3 hectares (17.583 km²; 6.789 sq mi)
Notification	1994 (1994)
Natural England website

Exmoor Coastal Heaths (grid reference SS620480) is a 1758.3 hectare (4344.7 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon and Somerset, notified in 1994.

This site lies within the Exmoor National Park, and contains extensive areas of heathland communities. Associated particularly with the coastal communities and woods are a wide range of nationally rare and scarce plants. The site comprises four separate blocks (between Combe Martin and Minehead) centred on Trentishoe, Cosgate Hill, Countisbury and North Hill. There are two nationally rare, endemic Whitebeam species which occur in the woodland areas namely Sorbus subcuneata and Sorbus vexans. Several nationally scarce plant species are found within this site; White Mullein (Verbascum lychnitis) in its yellow form occurs in fields at the edge of the site, Cornish Moneywort Sibthorpia europaea beside streams, Rock Stonecrop Sedum forsteranum on rocky seacliffs and Sea Storksbill (Erodium maritinum), Upright Chickweed (Moenchia erecta) and Bird's-foot Clover (Trifolium ornithopodioides) all in areas of very short turf. A nationally rare butterfly the High Brown Fritillary (Argynnis adippe) occurs on this site.^[1]

References

↑ "Exmoor Coastal Heaths" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 2006-08-12.

Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset

Summarised data for all sites (biological and geological)

Aller and Beer Woods Aller Hill Asham Wood Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill Babcary Meadows Barle Valley Barrington Hill Meadows Berrow Dunes Black Down and Sampford Commons Brean Down Bridgwater Bay Briggins Moor Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors Chancellor's Farm Cheddar Complex Cheddar Reservoir Cheddar Wood Cleeve Hill Cogley Wood Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill Curry and Hay Moors Deadman Draycott Sleights Dunster Park and Heathlands East Polden Grasslands Ebbor Gorge Edford Woods and Meadows Exmoor Coastal Heaths Fivehead Woods and Meadow Freshmoor Friar's Oven Ge-mare Farm Fields Great Breach and Copley Woods Grove Farm Hardington Moor Hestercombe House Holme Moor & Clean Moor King's Sedgemoor Kingdown and Middledown Kingweston Meadows Lang's Farm Langford Heathfield Langmead and Weston Level Long Lye Long Lye Meadow Longleat Woods Millwater Moorlinch Nettlecombe Park North Brewham Meadows North Curry Meadow North Exmoor North Moor Old Ironstone Works, Mells Perch Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh Postlebury Wood Priddy Pools Prior's Park & Adcombe Wood Quantock Hills Quants Ringdown River Barle Rodney Stoke Roebuck Meadows Ruttersleigh Severn Estuary Shapwick Heath Sharpham Moor Plot South Exmoor Southey and Gotleigh Moors Southlake Moor Sparkford Wood St. Dunstan's Well Catchment Stowell Meadow Street Heath Tealham and Tadham Moors Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands Twinhills Woods and Meadows Vallis Vale Walton and Ivythorn Hills West Moor West Sedgemoor Westhay Heath Westhay Moor Wet Moor Whitevine Meadows Windsor Hill Marsh Wookey Hole Woolhayes Farm

Neighbouring areas Avon Devon Dorset Wiltshire

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