Histon Road SSSI

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Histon Road
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Histon Road 1.jpg
LocationCambridgeshire
Grid referenceTL 443 611[1]
InterestGeological
Area0.6 hectares[1]
Notification1984[1]
Location mapMagic Map

Histon Road is a 0.6 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridge.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]

Histon Road is described by Natural England as a "key Pleistocene stratigraphic site". It is one of only two sites in East Anglia which has an almost complete sequence of the second half of the warm Eemian interglacial, around 120,000 years ago. There are many deposits of molluscs and pollen.[4]

The site has been filled in and is now allotments.[4] There is no public access.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Histon Road". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Map of Histon Road". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Histon Road (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Histon Road citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 October 2016.

Coordinates: 52°13′44″N 0°06′43″E / 52.229°N 0.112°E / 52.229; 0.112

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