Lewes Downs

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Lewes Downs
Site of Special Scientific Interest
The Coombe, Malling Down Nature Reserve - geograph.org.uk - 292081.jpg
Location East Sussex
Grid reference TQ 437 099 [1]
InterestBiological
Area165.0 hectares (408 acres) [1]
Notification 1986 [1]
Location map Magic Map

Lewes Downs is a 165-hectare (410-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Lewes in East Sussex. [1] [2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I [3] and a Special Area of Conservation. [4] Part of it is a national nature reserve, [5] part is Malling Down nature reserve, which is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust, [6] and part is Mount Caburn, an Iron Age hill fort which is a Scheduled Monument. [7]

This south-facing slope on the South Downs is ecologically rich chalk grassland and scrub. Flora include the nationally rare early-spider orchid and it also has a diverse invertebrate fauna and an important breeding community of downland birds. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Lewes Downs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Map of Lewes Downs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 116–17. ISBN   0521 21403 3.
  4. ↑ "Designated Sites View: Lewes Downs". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "Designated Sites View: Lewes Downs (Mount Caburn)". National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "Malling Down". Sussex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Hillfort, bowl barrow and associated remains on The Caburn (1014527)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. ↑ "Lewes Downs citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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