Nightingale Valley

For Nightingale Valley in Leigh Woods, North Somerset, see Leigh Woods.

Nightingale Valley

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Shown within Somerset
Area of Search	Avon
Grid reference	ST449751
Coordinates	51°28′20″N 2°47′41″W / 51.47217°N 2.79469°W / 51.47217; -2.79469Coordinates: 51°28′20″N 2°47′41″W / 51.47217°N 2.79469°W / 51.47217; -2.79469
Interest	Geological
Area	5.4 hectares (0.054 km2; 0.021 sq mi)
Notification	1989 (1989)
Natural England website

Nightingale Valley (grid reference ST449751) is a 5.4 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the town of Portishead, North Somerset, notified in 1989.

This site in the Vale of Gordano is listed because of Pleistocene ‘plateau-deposits’ which include ‘cannon-shot’ gravels, fine sandy gravels and silty gravels with a wide range of erratic lithologies.^[1]

References

1. ^ English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 12 July 2006)

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