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St. Catherine's Valley

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Area of Search
  
Avon

Interest
  
Biological

Location map
  
English Nature

Grid reference
  
ST760725

Area
  
156.1 hectare

Notification
  
1997

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St. Catherine's Valley (grid reference ST760725) is a 156.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest southwest of the village of Marshfield, South Gloucestershire, notified in 1997.

At the Marshfield end of the valley, a large naturalised population of Dragon's Teeth (Tetragonolobus maritimus), a species not native to Britain, is present; it was first found by Rev. E. Ellman in 1927.

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St. Catherine's Valley Wikipedia