Aller Hill


Aller Hill
Aller Hill (Somerset)
Aller Hill
Shown within Somerset

Coordinates: 51°03′29″N 2°50′46″W / 51.05817, -2.84608

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search Somerset
Grid Reference ST408291
Interest Biological
Area 18.4 hectares (0.184 km2/0.071 sq mi)
Notification 1988 (1988)
English Nature Website

Aller Hill (grid reference ST408291) is a 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 dissignated as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

References

  1. ^ "Aller Hill". English Nature. Retrieved on 2006-08-12.


Coordinates: 51°03′29″N 2°50′46″W / 51.05817, -2.84608

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