Court Hill

Court Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
	Location within Somerset
Location	Avon
Grid reference	ST436722
Coordinates	51°26′45″N 2°48′47″W / 51.44597°N 2.81294°W
Interest	Geological
Area	10.45 hectares (0.1045 km2; 0.0403 sq mi)
Notification	1997
	Natural England website

Court Hill (grid reference ST436722) is a 10.45 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the town of Clevedon, North Somerset, England, notified in 1997.

Pleistocene

Court Hill is a Geological Conservation Review Site because it is the only example in southern England of an ice-marginal col-gully cut by glacial meltwater and infilled by a variety of glacial sediments. The Pleistocene deposits include gravels, boulder-beds, sands, and till, overlain by cover sands with erratics of flint and Greensand chert.

It has also yielded a number of Jurassic and Cretaceous foraminifera (micro fossils).^[1]

Manor house

Clevedon Court is a manor house on the side of Court Hill, dating from the early 14th century. It is owned by the National Trust and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.^[2]

References

^ English Nature citation sheet for the site Archived May 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (accessed 9 July 2006).
^ "Clevedon Court". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2008.

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[sssicitation-1] English Nature citation sheet for the site Archived May 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (accessed 9 July 2006).

[IoEcourt-2] "Clevedon Court". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2008.

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