Tags: Site Of Special Scientific Interest.
Long Lye (grid reference ST265122) is a 11.7 hectare (29.0 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Buckland St Mary in the Blackdown Hills Somerset notified in 1988.This site along with the adjoining Long Lye Meadow were considered to be under threat from a scheme to widen the A303.Long Lye is a traditionally managed neutral grassland of a type which was once characteristic of lowland Britain but has now become increasingly rare due to agricultural intensification.