Histon Road SSSI

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|name= Histon Road

|aos= Cambridgeshire

|interest=Geological

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|area= 0.6 hectares

|notifydate= 1984

|map=[http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271004066%27 Magic Map]

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Histon Road is a {{convert|0.6|hectare|acre|adj=on}} geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridge.{{cite web|url= https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1004066&SiteName=histon&countyCode=&responsiblePerson= |title=Designated Sites View: Histon Road | series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date = 26 October 2016}}{{cite web|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271004066%27|title=Map of Histon Road|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date= 26 October 2016}} It is a Geological Conservation Review site.{{cite web|url= http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=615 |title= Histon Road (Quaternary of East Anglia)|publisher=Joint Nature Conservation Committee|access-date= 26 October 2016}}

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.{{cite web|url= http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004066.pdf|title= Histon Road citation|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher= Natural England|access-date= 26 October 2016|archive-date= 24 October 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121024195114/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004066.pdf|url-status= dead}}

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