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Roebuck Meadows

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Area of Search
  
Somerset

Interest
  
Biological

Grid reference
  
ST132354

Notification
  
1988

Roebuck Meadows

Area
  
3.6 hectares (0.036 km; 0.014 sq mi)

Roebuck Meadows (grid reference ST132354) is a 3.6 hectare (8.9 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Crowcombe in Somerset, notified in 1988.

Roebuck Meadows have a very varied and herb-rich vegetation composed of mire and grassland communities together comprising an important example of lowland mire, which is a nationally scarce habitat. The meadows contain Cornish moneywort (Sibthorpia europaea), a nationally scarce plant restricted to south-west Britain.

References

Roebuck Meadows Wikipedia