Nightingale Valley
51°28′20″N 2°47′41″W / 51.47217°N 2.79469°W / 51.47217; -2.79469
Nightingale Valley (grid reference ST449751) is a 5.4 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the town of Portishead, North Somerset, notified in 1989.
This site in the Vale of Gordano is listed because of Pleistocene ‘plateau-deposits’ which include ‘cannon-shot’ gravels, fine sandy gravels and silty gravels with a wide range of erratic lithologies.[1]
References
- ^ English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 12 July 2006)
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- Barns Batch Spinney
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- Bourne
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- Brinkmarsh Quarry
- Browne's Folly
- Buckover Road Cutting
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- Clevedon Shore
- Compton Martin Ochre Mine
- Court Hill
- Cullimore's Quarry
- Damery Road Section
- Dundry Main Road South Quarry
- Gordano Valley
- Ham Green
- Hampton Rocks Cutting
- Hartcliff Rocks Quarry
- Hawkesbury Quarry
- Hinton Charterhouse Pit
- Hinton Hill, Wellow
- Holly Lane
- Huish Colliery Quarry
- Kenn Church, Kenn Pier & Yew Tree Farm
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- Lower Woods
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- Middle Hope
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- Nightingale Valley
- North Road Quarry, Bath
- Portishead Pier to Black Nore
- Quarry Steps, Durdham Down
- Severn Estuary
- Slickstones Quarry, Cromhall
- Spring Cove Cliffs
- Stidham Farm
- Tytherington Quarry
- Weston-in-Gordano
- Winterbourne Railway Cutting
- Writhlington
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- Gloucestershire
- Somerset
- Wiltshire
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