| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
| Shown within Somerset | |
| Area of Search | Somerset |
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| Grid reference | SS880479 |
| Coordinates | 51°13′09″N 3°36′18″W / 51.21928°N 3.60508°W / 51.21928; -3.60508Coordinates: 51°13′09″N 3°36′18″W / 51.21928°N 3.60508°W / 51.21928; -3.60508 |
| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 186.3 hectares (1.863 km2; 0.719 sq mi) |
| Notification | 1990 (1990) |
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Natural England website |
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Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh (grid reference SS880479) is a 186.3 hectare (460.4 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on Porlock Bay, notified in 1990.
This site is notified for its nationally important active coastal geomorphological features. It is also nationally important for the salt marsh and coastal vegetated shingle habitats which occur here.
At Bossington a shingle beach, through which flows the River Horner, rising sea levels in the 1990s caused the creation of salt marshes and lagoons developed in the area behind the boulder bank.
Read more about this topic: Porlock Bay
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