Area of Search Cambridgeshire Interest Biological Notification 1986 | Grid reference TL 364 428 Area 3.3 hectares Location map [ Magic Map] | |
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Holland Hall (Melbourn) Railway Cutting is a 3.3 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Melbourn in Cambridgeshire. It is the verge of a kilometere long stretch of an operational railway line, the Cambridge Line.
The site is steeply sloping chalk grassland, which has many plants which are unique in the county, and some which are nationally uncommon, such as wild candytuft. Also present is the nationally rare great pignut.
There is no public access to the site.
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