Stockbridge Down

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Stockbridge Down
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Stockbridge Down - geograph.org.uk - 100417.jpg
Location Hampshire
Grid reference SU 379 349 [1]
InterestBiological
Area69.8 hectares (172 acres) [1]
Notification 1985 [1]
Location map Magic 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 parts of it are designated as scheduled monuments, including an Iron Age hillfort (Woolbury) 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "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. Historic England. "Woolbury Ring, Stockbridge (scheduled monument) (1003531)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  6. "Stockbridge Down" (PDF) (SSSI citation). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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