Sharpham Moor Plot

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Sharpham Moor Plot
Area of Search Somerset
Grid Reference ST465389
Interest Biological
Area 0.5 hectare (1.3 acre)
Notification 1967
Location Map [Sharpham Moor Plot English Nature]

Sharpham Moor Plot (grid reference ST465389) is a 0.5 hectare (1.3 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Sharpham in Somerset, UK, notified in 1967.

Sharpham Moor Plot is an area, predominately of secondary woodland, on Turbary Moor Series Peat within the Somerset Moors managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. It has considerable value for its research and historic interest. The research value of the plot lies in its being the site of one of the best documented examples of natural succession. Detailed plant records exist from as far back as 1915, and continue up to the present day. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sharpham Moor Plot. English Nature. Retrieved on 2006-08-20.
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Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Summary:
SSSIs:
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  · Quantocks  · 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
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Coordinates: 51.14685° N 2.76622° W