Uphill Cliff
Uphill Cliff is a 19.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Uphill, North Somerset, although it is in the Avon Area of Search used by English Nature which is based on the 1974-1996 county system.
The site was notified as an SSSI in 1952 and the area increased in a 1984 Revision. The site excludes Uphill Church and grounds.
Pople, Uphill surname are derived from a geographical locality. 'of Uphill,' a parish in Somerset: N. Som. Opopille 1086. ' above the creek'. OE uppan + pyll. River Axe. Uphill stands on the lower Axe. POPLE is so common a name in North Somerset that in only one of the county’s several registration districts – that of Axbridge – some 185 Poples are listed on the 1891 census or Popple, Pople: 1. Locative name Pophills, Salford Priors or Pophall, Linchmere.
It consists of species-rich calcareous grassland and rock-face situated on Carboniferous Limestone. Steeper banks and knolls in the grassland have a flora which includes orchids Somerset Hair Grass, and Honewort, and the Goldilocks Aster along with several species of butterfly and Weevil.
The site is approximately co-terminus with two local nature reserves, Uphill Hill and Walborough Common.
