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), that is, square metres (), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. ...
(8.9 acre)
biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of
Crowcombe in
Somerset
Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...
,
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
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1988
Meadows in Somerset
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