| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
 Cleeve Common panorama | |
  Location within Gloucestershire | |
| Location | Gloucestershire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SO990260 |
| Coordinates | 51°55′59″N 2°00′55″W / 51.93296°N 2.015225°W |
| Interest | Biological/Geological |
| Area | 455 hectare |
| Notification | 1974 |
| Natural England website | |
Cleeve Common (grid reference SO990260) is a 455-hectare (1,120-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, England, notified in 1974.[1][2] It is looked after by a small charity called Cleeve Common Trust, formally Cleeve Common Board of Conservators.
It lies in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is on Cleeve Hill. There is a golf course on the site and the site is registered as a common. The site is on Jurassic limestones on the top of the Cotswold scarp. It is north-east of Cheltenham. It is a large site and is important for its biology and geology.[1]
- ^ a b "SSSI citation for Cleeve Common" (PDF). Natural England. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ "Tewkesbury Borough Local Plan to 2011, adopted March 2006, Appendix 3 'Nature Conservation', Sites of Special Scientific Interest". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2012.