North Brewham Meadows
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North Brewham Meadows
North Brewham Meadows (Somerset)
North Brewham Meadows
Shown within Somerset

Coordinates: 51°08′23″N 2°22′07″W / 51.13979, -2.36873
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search Somerset
Grid Reference ST743379
Interest Biological
Area 8.9 hectares (0.089 km2/0.034 sq mi)
Notification 1987 (1987)
English Nature Website

North Brewham Meadows (grid reference ST743379) is a 8.9 hectare (21.9 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at North Brewham in Somerset, England, notified in 1987.

These traditionally-managed species-rich meadows support a neutral grassland community of the nationally rare Common Knapweed Crested Dog's-tail type. Breeding butterflies typical of unimproved neutral grassland include Small Copper (Lycaena phaeas), Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina), Grayling (Hipparchia semele) and Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus).1

References

  1. ^ "North Brewham Meadows". English Nature. Retrieved on 2006-08-18.
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Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Summary:
SSSIs:
Aller and Beer Woods  · Aller Hill  · Asham Wood  · Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill  · Babcary Meadows  · Barle Valley  · Barrington Hill Meadows  · Berrow Dunes  · Black Down and Sampford Commons  · Brean Down  · Bridgwater Bay  · Briggins Moor  · Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors  · Chancellor's Farm  · Cheddar Complex  · Cheddar Reservoir  · Cheddar Wood  · Cleeve Hill  · Cogley Wood  · Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill  · Curry and Hay Moors  · Deadman  · Draycott Sleights  · Dunster Park and Heathlands  · East Polden Grasslands  · Ebbor Gorge  · Edford Woods and Meadows  · Exmoor Coastal Heaths  · Fivehead Woods and Meadow  · Freshmoor  · Friar's Oven  · Ge-mare Farm Fields  · Great Breach and Copley Woods  · Grove Farm  · Hardington Moor  · Hestercombe House  · Holme Moor & Clean Moor  · King's Sedgemoor  · Kingdown and Middledown  · Kingweston Meadows  · Lang's Farm  · Langford Heathfield  · Langmead and Weston Level  · Long Lye  · Long Lye Meadow  · Longleat Woods  · Millwater  · Moorlinch  · Nettlecombe Park  · North Brewham Meadows  · North Curry Meadow  · North Exmoor  · North Moor  · Old Ironstone Works, Mells  · Perch  · Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh  · Postlebury Wood  · Priddy Pools  · Prior's Park & Adcombe Wood  · Quantocks  · Quants  · Ringdown  · River Barle  · Rodney Stoke  · Roebuck Meadows  · Ruttersleigh  · Severn Estuary  · Shapwick Heath  · Sharpham Moor Plot  · South Exmoor  · Southey and Gotleigh Moors  · Southlake Moor  · Sparkford Wood  · St. Dunstan's Well Catchment  · Stowell Meadow  · Street Heath  · Tealham and Tadham Moors  · Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands  · Twinhills Woods and Meadows  · Vallis Vale  · Walton and Ivythorn Hills  · West Moor  · West Sedgemoor  · Westhay Heath  · Westhay Moor  · Wet Moor  · Whitevine Meadows  · Windsor Hill Marsh  · Wookey Hole  · Woolhayes Farm
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Coordinates: 51°08′23″N 2°22′07″W / 51.13979, -2.36873
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