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| Area of Search | Somerset |
| Grid Reference | ST465538 |
| Interest | Biological and Geological |
| Area | 441. Areas of Search (AOSs are geographical areas used in the selection of Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Grid references define locations on Maps using Cartesian coordinates. 3 hectare (1090. Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, 5 acre) |
| Notification | 1952 |
| Location Map | English Nature |
The Cheddar Complex (grid reference ST465538) is a 441. A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude 3 hectare (1090. Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, 5 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Cheddar and around the Cheddar Gorge in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, notified in 1952. A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom. Cheddar is a large Village and Civil parish in the district of Sedgemoor in the English county of Somerset. The Mendip Hills (commonly called The Mendips) are a range of Limestone hills situated to the south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom.
This is a very large area which includes 4 SSSIs formerly known as Cheddar Gorge SSSI, August Hole/Longwood Swallet SSSI, GB Cavern Charterhouse SSSI and Charterhouse on-Mendip SSSI. It is part owned by the National Trust and part managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust. The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales Somerset Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Somerset, England. The List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset gives the current names. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest
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Biological
The Cheddar Complex supports a wide range of semi-natural habitats which includes unimproved grassland, calcareous dry dwarf-shrub heath, semi-natural broadleaved woodland and dense and scattered scrub. ‘ Ancient Woodland ’ is a term used in the United Kingdom to refer specifically to Woodland dating back to 1600 or before in England and Wales Four nationally rare plants are present, including Little Robin Geranium purpureum, Cheddar Pink Dianthus gratianopolitanus and Cheddar Bedstraw Galium fleurotii, two of which are endemic to the Cheddar area, as well as fifteen nationally scarce species. Dianthus is a Genus of about 300 Species of Flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native mainly to Europe
Geological
This site is important for karst, caves and vertebrate palaeontology and comprises four single interest localities. Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble Bedrock, usually Carbonate rock such as Limestone Vertebrates are members of the Subphylum Vertebrata, Chordates with backbones or spinal columns The grouping sometimes includes Palaeontology redirects here For the Scientific journal, see Palaeontology (journal. Cheddar Gorge is Britain’s largest gorge and probably the country’s best known limestone feature. Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 It is a spectacular fluvial feature with a geomorphic history extending back 2 million years and encompassing the major environmental changes of the Pleistocene period. Fluvial is used in Geography and Earth science to refer to the deposits and landforms created by the action of rivers or streams and the processes associated with Geomorphology (from Greek: γη ge, "earth" μορφή morfé, "form" and λόγος Logos, "knowledge" The Pleistocene ('plaɪstəsin is the epoch from 18 million to 10000 years BP covering the world's recent period Cheddar Caves contain both active and fossil systems. FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for Telecommunications programs under the DOS Operating system. The active cave system is one of the most heavily studied karst systems in Britain with reference to the conduit and diffuse flow characteristics of its hydrology. Hydrology (from Greek Yδωρ hudōr, "water" and λόγος logos, "study" is the study of the movement distribution and quality of Charterhouse Caves include four major swallet caves that provide an indisputable record of Pleistocene landform development in the Mendips and surrounding area. Charterhouse, also known as Charterhouse-on-Mendip, is a small hamlet in the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB in the A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or Cenote, is a natural depression The Pleistocene ('plaɪstəsin is the epoch from 18 million to 10000 years BP covering the world's recent period Sun Hole Cave provides a varied fauna radiocarbon-dated to the end of the Late Devensian Cold Stage. "Last glacial" redirects here For the period of maximum glacier extent during this time see Last Glacial Maximum The last glacial period
The Charterhouse area is of great importance as the finest remaining example of the unique Lead orefields of the Mendips. The surface features derived from lead working from pre-Roman times up to the nineteenth century are extremely well preserved. [1]
References
- ^ The Cheddar Complex. English Nature. Retrieved on 2006-07-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians
See also
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