Uphill Cliff

Uphill Cliff

Infobox SSSI


name=Uphill Cliff
aos=Avon
interest=Biological
gridref=ST318583
area=19.8 hectare
notifydate=1952

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Uphill Cliff (gbmapping|ST318583) is a 19.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Uphill, North Somerset, although it is in the Avon Area of Search used by English Nature which is based on the 1974-1996 county system [cite web | title=County search of SSSIs | work=English Nature | url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/Special/sssi/search.cfm | accessdate=2006-08-05] .

The site was notified as an SSSI in 1952 and the area increased in a 1984 Revision. The site excludes Uphill Church and grounds.

It consists of species-rich calcareous grassland and rock-face situated on Carboniferous Limestone. Steeper banks and knolls in the grassland have a flora which includes orchids Somerset Hair Grass "Koeleria vallesiana", and Honewort
Trinia glauca and the Goldilocks Aster "linosyris" along with several species of butterfly and Weevil ("Curculionoidea"). [cite web | title=Uphill Cliff | work=English Nature's SSSI Information | url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000858.pdf | accessdate=2007-01-27]

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