Coombe Hill (Cotswolds)


Coombe Hill is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1994.
The site lies within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Cotswold Hills Environmentally Sensitive Area. It is near Wotton-under-Edge. It is moderately steep, and mainly faces south.

Flora

The hill is a large, unimproved limestone grassland pasture area, with an ungrazed area and an edge of broadleaved woodland. This site is of special notification because of its large area of flower rich grassland. It is specifically a site for the nationally rare Limestone Woundwort . A nearby site supports this rare plant also.