Kingweston Meadows
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Kingweston Meadows is a 11.5 hectare
(28.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Kingweston
in Somerset
, notified in 1990.
This site is an excellent example of an unimproved herb-rich neutral grassland of a type which is now rare in Britain.
Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
(28.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Kingweston
Kingweston
Kingweston is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated north east of Somerton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 128.-History:The village's name was Chinwardestune in the Domesday Book of 1086...
in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, notified in 1990.
This site is an excellent example of an unimproved herb-rich neutral grassland of a type which is now rare in Britain.