Roebuck Meadows - Wikipedia

Roebuck Meadows
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location within Somerset
Location	Somerset
Grid reference	ST132354
Coordinates	51°06′41″N 3°14′29″W / 51.11130°N 3.24133°W / 51.11130; -3.24133
Interest	Biological
Area	3.6 hectares (0.036 km²; 0.014 sq mi)
Notification	1988 (1988)
Natural England website

Roebuck Meadows (grid reference ST132354) is a 3.6 hectare (8.9 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Crowcombe in Somerset, 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.^[1]

References

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^ "Roebuck Meadows" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 19 August 2006.

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