Congrove Field and The Tumps
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Congrove Field and The Tumps is a (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) is a Script error: No such module "convert". biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on Lansdown Hill, north of Bath in Bath and North East Somerset, notified in 1991.[1][2]
It is an area of calcareous grassland lying over Oolitic (Jurassic) Limestone covered by shallow, well-drained soils. The Tumps is above Congrove Field, and is believed to be the site of mining activities in the past. The grassland communities present are of the Tor-grass (Brachypodium pinnatum) type showing elements of both the Meadow Oat-grass-wild thyme (Avenula pratensis)–(Thymus praecox) and the Knapweed-Rough Hawkbit (Centaurea nigra)–(Leontodon hispidus) variants.[3]
The Tumps is also the name of an elevated area of woodland and open grassland in the southern outskirts of Bath, north of the Odd Down Sports Ground.[4]
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- ↑ https://www.bathscape.co.uk/place/the-tumps/ Bathscape Project. Retrieved 31 March 2024
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