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Nightingale Valley
Nightingale
Valley
is a 5.4
hectare
geological Site of Special Scientific Interest
near
the town
of
Portishead, North Somerset
,
notified
in
1989
.
This
site
in the
Vale of Gordano
is
listed
because of
Pleistocene
‘plateau-deposits’ which include ‘cannon-shot’
gravels
,
fine
sandy
gravels and
silty
gravels with a
wide
range
of
erratic
lithologies
.