Glenthorne
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Glenthorne
Shown within Somerset Coordinates: 51°14′02″N 3°43′13″W / 51.23383, -3.72018
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search	Somerset & Devon
Grid Reference	SS800497
Interest	Geological
Area	13.3 hectares (0.133 km2/0.051 sq mi)
Notification	1989 (1989)
English Nature Website

Glenthorne (grid reference SS800497) is a 13.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Exmoor National Park, on the border of Somerset and Devon, notified in 1989.

Glenthorne is a Geological Conservation Review site because of the Trentishoe Formation of the Hangman Sandstone Group. The Hangman Sandstone represents the Middle Devonian sequence of North Devon and Somerset.¹ These unusual freshwater deposits in the Hangman Grits, which were mainly formed in desert conditions.²

References

External links

• English Nature website (SSSI information)

Coordinates: 51°14′02″N 3°43′13″W / 51.23383, -3.72018