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and bugs. The site also supports good populations of waterfowl, especially waders. Breeding birds include
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and ditches. It is subject to controlled flooding in winter. It is drained by the
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wood on the southern edge of the reserve, has one of the UK's largest
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Summarised data for all sites (biological and geological)
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Sites of
Special Scientific Interest notified in 1983
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904:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset
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37:A lake at the RSPB West Sedgemoor nature reserve
383:Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest
206:biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
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25:Site of Special Scientific Interest
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697:Prior's Park & Adcombe Wood
502:Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill
447:Black Down and Sampford Commons
792:Thurlbear Wood and Quarrylands
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567:Great Breach and Copley Woods
772:St. Dunstan's Well Catchment
422:Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill
238:is present including scarce
909:Nature reserves in Somerset
797:Twinhills Woods and Meadows
682:Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh
587:Holme Moor & Clean Moor
522:Dunster Park and Heathlands
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757:Southey and Gotleigh Moors
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537:Edford Woods and Meadows
63:Location within Somerset
597:Kingdown and Middledown
437:Barrington Hill Meadows
277:Swell Wood, an ancient
169:Natural England website
527:East Polden Grasslands
227:Part of the moor is a
672:Old Iron Works, Mells
652:North Brewham Meadows
542:Exmoor Coastal Heaths
407:Aller and Beer Woods
212:(3.9 sq miles) site
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612:Langford Heathfield
562:Ge-mare Farm Fields
507:Curry and Hay Moors
214:notified as an SSSI
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864:Neighbouring areas
842:Windsor Hill Marsh
747:Sharpham Moor Plot
657:North Curry Meadow
602:Kingweston Meadows
124:51.02800; -2.91256
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582:Hestercombe House
517:Draycott Sleights
482:Cheddar Reservoir
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752:South Exmoor
732:Ruttersleigh
722:Rodney Stoke
692:Priddy Pools
662:North Exmoor
557:Friar's Oven
487:Cheddar Wood
442:Berrow Dunes
432:Barle Valley
338:. Retrieved
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152:Notification
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847:Wookey Hole
802:Vallis Vale
717:River Barle
607:Lang's Farm
532:Ebbor Gorge
497:Cogley Wood
492:Cleeve Hill
244:dragonflies
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97:Coordinates
898:Categories
667:North Moor
572:Grove Farm
452:Brean Down
417:Asham Wood
412:Aller Hill
289:References
264:water rail
208:, a 1,016
138:Biological
107:51°01′41″N
883:Wiltshire
812:West Moor
642:Moorlinch
637:Millwater
552:Freshmoor
340:22 August
315:22 August
283:heronries
279:deciduous
110:2°54′45″W
832:Wet Moor
712:Ringdown
622:Long Lye
387:Somerset
272:whinchat
256:redshank
198:Somerset
189:ST361258
135:Interest
89:ST361258
77:Somerset
73:Location
512:Deadman
252:lapwing
210:hectare
202:Taunton
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878:Dorset
707:Quants
260:curlew
218:rhynes
873:Devon
677:Perch
306:(PDF)
248:snipe
236:fauna
196:, in
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342:2006
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