Puxton Moor

Puxton Moor
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location within Somerset
Area of Search	Avon
Grid reference	ST412630
Coordinates	51°21′47″N 2°50′45″W / 51.36301°N 2.84595°W / 51.36301; -2.84595Coordinates: 51°21′47″N 2°50′45″W / 51.36301°N 2.84595°W / 51.36301; -2.84595
Interest	Biological
Area	31.07 hectares (0.3107 km²; 0.1200 sq mi)
Notification	1994 (1994)
Natural England website

Puxton Moor (grid reference ST412630) is a 31.07 ha (76.8 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the North Somerset Levels, near Puxton, North Somerset, notified in 1994. It is a large area of pasture land networked with species-rich rhynes, now owned and managed as a nature reserve by Avon Wildlife Trust.

The rhynes contain rare plants such as frogbit and rootless duckweed, along with many scarce invertebrates such as the hairy dragonfly and water scorpion. Birds seen at the site include; skylark, reed and sedge warblers, whimbrel, whitethroat and reed bunting.^[1]

The site also contains a relict Roman landscape which is evident in many of the fields; Medieval earthworks are also present.

References

Media related to Puxton Moor at Wikimedia Commons

The North Somerset Levels

Towns and villages	Brinsea Claverham Congresbury Hewish Kenn Kingston Seymour Locking Lower Langford Nailsea Puxton Wick St. Lawrence Yatton

SSSIs	Biddle Street, Yatton Puxton Moor Tickenham, Nailsea and Kenn Moors Yanal Bog

Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon

Ashton Court Avon Gorge Banwell Caves Biddle Street, Yatton Bishop's Hill Wood Blagdon Lake Bodkin Hazel Wood Brockley Hall Stables Brown's Folly Burledge Sidelands and Meadows Burrington Combe Chew Valley Lake Cleaves Wood Cleeve Wood, Hanham Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines Compton Martin Ochre Mine Congrove Field and The Tumps Dolebury Warren Ellenborough Park West Folly Farm Goblin Combe Gordano Valley Harptree Combe Hawkesbury Meadow Hinton Charterhouse Field Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton Iford Manor King's Wood and Urchin Wood Long Dole Wood and Meadows Lower Woods Max Bog Middle Hope Midger Monkswood Valley Plaster's Green Meadows Purn Hill Puxton Moor Severn Estuary Shiplate Slait St. Catherine's Valley Steep Holm Tickenham, Nailsea and Kenn Moors Uphill Cliff Upton Coombe Walton Common Weston Big Wood Yanal Bog

Neighbouring areas Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire

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