Roebuck Meadows () is a 3.6
hectare
The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...
(8.9 acre)
biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of
Crowcombe
Crowcombe is a village and civil parish under the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England, southeast of Watchet, and from Taunton. The village has a population of 489.
The parish covers the hamlets of Crowcombe Heathfield, Flaxpool, Halsway, Law ...
in
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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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
''Sibthorpia europaea'' is a species of flowering plant known by the common name Cornish moneywort. It can be found as a disjunct distribution in Western Europe from the Azores, Portugal and Spain to south-western Ireland and south-western Unite ...
''), a nationally scarce plant restricted to south-west Britain.
References
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1988
Meadows in Somerset
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