Long Lye

Long Lye
Site of Special Scientific Interest
	Location within Somerset
Location	Somerset
Grid reference	ST265122
Coordinates	50°54′16″N 3°02′48″W / 50.90457°N 3.04667°W
Interest	Biological
Area	11.7 hectares (0.117 km2; 0.045 sq mi)
Notification	1988
	Natural England website

Long Lye (grid reference ST265122) is an 11.7 hectare (29.0 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Buckland St Mary in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, notified in 1988.

This site along with the adjoining Long Lye Meadow were considered to be under threat from a scheme to widen the A303.^[1]

Long Lye is a traditionally managed neutral grassland of a type which was once characteristic of lowland Britain but has now become increasingly rare due to agricultural intensification. Mature broadleaved woodland and wet flush communities add considerable diversity to this site. Fifteen species of butterfly have been recorded here. They include the silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia), of which the valenzia form has been found, purple hairstreak (Quercusia quercus) and marbled white (Melanargia galathea).^[2]

References

^ "Victory as Government backs down over Blackdown Hills". Friends of the Earth. Retrieved 17 August 2006.
^ "Long Lye" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 17 August 2006.

[1] "Victory as Government backs down over Blackdown Hills". Friends of the Earth. Retrieved 17 August 2006.

[2] "Long Lye" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 17 August 2006.

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