Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Gloucestershire |
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Grid reference | ST7360698151 |
Coordinates | 51°40′52″N 2°22′54″W / 51.68104°N 2.38179°W |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 28.6 hectare |
Notification | 1966 |
Natural England website |
Stinchcombe is a small village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England on the B4060 road between Dursley and North Nibley. The church is called St Cyr's and its churchyard contains 40–60 gravestones. The population taken at the 2011 census was 480.[1]
It gives its name to the nearby Stinchcombe Hill (grid reference ST7360698151) which is a 28.6-hectare (71-acre), a nearly detached part of the Cotswold Edge, which was notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1966.[2][3]