# Max Bog

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Max Bog Site of Special Scientific Interest Location within Somerset Location of Max Bog. Location Avon Grid reference ST406574 Coordinates 51°18′47″N 2°51′10″W / 51.3131°N 2.8529°W / 51.3131; -2.8529 Interest Biological Area 10.6 hectares (0.106 km2; 0.041 sq mi) Notification 1988 (1988) Natural England website

**Max Bog** is a 10.6 [hectare](/source/Hectare) [biological Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/Biological_Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest) in [North Somerset](/source/North_Somerset), [notified](/source/SSSI_notification) in 1988.

The site is owned by North Somerset Council and managed by the [Avon Wildlife Trust](/source/Avon_Wildlife_Trust) for the range of wetland plants that it supports. There is no access without a permit.

## Ecology

[Marsh Helleborine](/source/Marsh_Helleborine) occurs here and nowhere else in [Avon](/source/Avon_(county)).[1] [Lesser Butterfly-orchid](/source/Lesser_Butterfly-orchid) and [Fragrant Orchid](/source/Fragrant_Orchid) also occur here, and at only one other Avon site each.[2] It is also home to [Yellow Rattle](/source/Yellow_Rattle), [Meadow Sweet](/source/Meadow_Sweet) and [Meadow Thistle](/source/Cirsium_dissectum). The reserve is also important for its invertebrate interest and is home to many species of [moth](/source/Moth), [grasshopper](/source/Grasshopper) and [dragonfly](/source/Dragonfly).[3]

[Narrow-leaved Marsh-orchid](/source/Narrow-leaved_Marsh-orchid) is found in adjacent fields.[4]

*[Dactylorhiza](/source/Dactylorhiza)* orchids are well represented, including the hybrids *D. × grandis* and *D. × hallii*.[4]

## See also

- [Yanal Bog](/source/Yanal_Bog), a similar SSSI to the northeast of Max Bog

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Myles, Sarah (2000) *Flora of the Bristol Region* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-874357-18-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-874357-18-8) page 249

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Myles, Sarah (2000) *Flora of the Bristol Region* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-874357-18-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-874357-18-8) page 250

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [English Nature citation sheet for the site](http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003773.pdf) (accessed 17 July 2006)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Myles251_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Myles251_4-1) Myles, Sarah (2000) *Flora of the Bristol Region* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-874357-18-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-874357-18-8) page 251

## External links

- [English Nature (SSSI information)](http://www.english-nature.org.uk/)

v t e Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon Ashton Court Avon Gorge Banwell Caves Biddle Street, Yatton Bishop's Hill Wood Blagdon Lake Bodkin Hazel Wood Brockley Hall Stables Browne's Folly Burledge Sidelands and Meadows Burrington Combe Chew Valley Lake Cleaves Wood Cleeve Wood, Hanham Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines Compton Martin Ochre Mine Congrove Field and The Tumps Dolebury Warren Ellenborough Park West Folly Farm Goblin Combe Gordano Valley Harptree Combe Hawkesbury Meadow Hinton Charterhouse Field Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton Iford Manor King's Wood and Urchin Wood Long Dole Wood and Meadows Lower Woods Max Bog Middle Hope Midger Monkswood Valley Plaster's Green Meadows Purn Hill Puxton Moor Severn Estuary Shiplate Slait St. Catherine's Valley Steep Holm Tickenham, Nailsea and Kenn Moors Uphill Cliff Upton Coombe Walton Common Weston Big Wood Yanal Bog Neighbouring areas Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire

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