Minchinhampton Common

[10] Those who own property within Minchinhampton Manor today, still have grazing rights on the Common,[9][11] as was custom in the open-field system before enclosure.

The quarries are one of the most important Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) research sites in the United Kingdom.

The site provides opportunities for significant further research on the local rock strata of the Minchinhampton and Burleigh limestones, and the relationship to the Bathonian successions to the east and south.

[1] The central plateau supports a short grassland sward (due to stock grazing) with longer vegetation on the steeper slopes.

The grassland includes upright brome, tor-grass, sheep's fescue, quaking grass, and crested dog's-tail.

Flowering herbs include common rock-rose, harebell, chalk milkwort, and field scabious.

[1] The rare greater horseshoe bat is recorded as hibernating in the disused stone mines on the Nailsworth side.