Hurst Hill, Oxfordshire

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Hurst Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Top of Hurst Hill (geograph 2457007).jpg
Location Oxfordshire
Grid reference SP 476 041 [1]
InterestBiological
Geological
Area20.6 hectares (51 acres) [1]
Notification 1986 [1]
Location map Magic Map

Hurst Hill or Cumnor Hurst is a 20.6-hectare (51-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Oxford in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3]

The site is owned by All Souls College, Oxford, [4] and its mosses and liverworts have been monitored for more than fifty years. The hill is also important geologically. In 1879 a fossil of a Camptosaurus prestwichii , a large herbivorous dinosaur dating to the Upper Jurassic 153 million years ago, was found on the site. [5] The fossil belongs to a typically North African genus, and provides evidence of a land bridge across the proto-Atlantic in the Late Jurassic. [6]

The hill is mentioned in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy . [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Hurst Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "Map of Hurst Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Chawley Brickpits, Cumnor Hurst (Jurassic - Cretaceous Reptilia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 26 February 2020.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. 1 2 Hopkins, Gerard Manley (2015). The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Oxford University Press. p. 371, n. 625.
  5. ↑ "Dinosaurs in the Museum" (PDF). Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  6. ↑ "Hurst Hill citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

Coordinates: 51°44′00″N1°18′40″W / 51.73333°N 1.31111°W / 51.73333; -1.31111

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