Gordano Valley
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Gordano (or the Gordano Valley; National Nature Reserve.[1]
The name Gordano comes from
Latinised form of Gorden meaning muddy valley.[3]
The valley runs roughly north-east to south-west, between
Internal Drainage Board
are now the responsibility of the North Somerset Internal Drainage Board.
An area comprising a total of 161.68 hectares (399.5 acres) has been designated as a
notification originally having taken place in 1971. Several sites in the valley are managed by the Avon Wildlife Trust as nature reserves. These include; Weston Big Wood, Clapton Moor, Weston Moor and Walton Common
.
The unimproved wet-meadow communities largely consist of variants of the nationally rare
Fen Pondweed (Potamogeton coloratus).[4] The site is now connected to the Severn Estuary by the Portbury Ashlands
nature reserve.
References
- ^ "Gordano Valley NNR". Natural England. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ "Footsteps into History - Clapton in Gordano". Western Daily Press. 22 September 2009. Archived from the original on 22 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-7134-5698-1.
- ^ "Gordano Valley SSSI citation" (PDF). Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2012.