Stockbridge Down

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Stockbridge Down
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Stockbridge Down - geograph.org.uk - 100417.jpg
LocationHampshire
Grid referenceSU 379 349[1]
InterestBiological
Area69.8 hectares (172 acres)[1]
Notification1985[1]
Location mapMagic Map

Stockbridge Down is a 69.8-hectare (172-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Stockbridge in Hampshire.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.[3] It is owned by the National Trust and part of it is a Scheduled Monument, with an Iron Age hillfort and fourteen Bronze Age burial mounds.[4][5]

This site has a variety of scrub and grassland habitats on a north-west facing slope of chalk and a clay-with-flints plateau. There is a diverse range of butterflies, such as chalk-hill blue, marbled white and dark green fritillary, while moths include the oblique striped.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Stockbridge Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Map of Stockbridge Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  3. ^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0521 21403 3.
  4. ^ "Stockbridge Down". National Trust. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Woolbury Ring, Stockbridge". Historic England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Stockbridge Down citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

Coordinates: 51°06′43″N 1°27′36″W / 51.112°N 1.460°W / 51.112; -1.460

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