Court Hill

Court Hill
Court Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Court Hill is located in Somerset
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Shown within Somerset
Area of Search Avon
Grid reference ST436722
Coordinates 51°26′45″N 2°48′47″W / 51.44597°N 2.81294°W / 51.44597; -2.81294Coordinates: 51°26′45″N 2°48′47″W / 51.44597°N 2.81294°W / 51.44597; -2.81294
Interest Geological
Area 10.45 hectares (0.1045 km2; 0.0403 sq mi)
Notification 1997 (1997)
Natural England website

Court Hill (grid reference ST436722) is a 10.45 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the town of Clevedon, North Somerset, England; notified in 1997.

It is a Geological Conservation Review Site because it is the only example in southern England of an ice marginal col-gully cut by glacial meltwater and infilled by a variety of glacial sediments. The Pleistocene deposits include gravels, boulder-beds, sands, and till, overlain by cover sands with erratics of flint and Greensand chert. It has also yielded a number of Jurassic and Cretaceous foraminifera (micro fossils).[1]

Clevedon Court is a manor house on the side of Court Hill, dating from the early fourteenth century. It is now owned by the National Trust. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[2]

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