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Newton St Loe SSSI is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) close to the River Avon, near the village of Newton St Loe in Bath and North East Somerset.[1]

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  1. 11 relations: Bath and North East Somerset, Geological Conservation Review, Glacial period, Hectare, Horse, Mammoth, Newton St Loe, Pleistocene, River Avon, Bristol, Site of Special Scientific Interest, South West England.

  2. Kennet and Avon Canal
  3. Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1992

Bath and North East Somerset

Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) is a unitary authority district in Somerset, South West England.

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Geological Conservation Review

The Geological Conservation Review (GCR) is produced by the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee and is designed to identify those sites of national and international importance needed to show all the key scientific elements of the geological and geomorphological features of Britain.

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Glacial period

A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Newton St Loe

Newton St Loe is a small Somerset village and civil parish located close to the villages of Corston and Stanton Prior, between Bath and Bristol in England.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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River Avon, Bristol

The River Avon is a river in the southwest of England. Newton St Loe SSSI and river Avon, Bristol are Kennet and Avon Canal.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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South West England

South West England, or the South West of England, is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom.

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See also

Kennet and Avon Canal

Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1992

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_St_Loe_SSSI

Also known as Newton Saint Loe SSSI.