Throope Down (grid reference SU086244 ) is a 34.4 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, on chalk grassland in Bishopstone parish south-east of Salisbury. The site was notified in 1971 and again in 1986.
Coordinates: 51°01′08″N1°52′44″W / 51.019°N 1.879°W
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Tytherington Down is a 5.9 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1975. The site spans a dry valley some 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of the village of Tytherington and 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Warminster.
Burcombe Down is an area of chalk grassland situated on a north-facing scarp slope to the south of Burcombe in Wiltshire, England. Because of its species-rich plant communities, an area of 47.1 hectares of the Down has been notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notification originally taking place in 1971.
Odstock Down is a 12.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, above the village of Odstock. It was notified in 1975.
Clearbury Down is a 13.3 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England. It is above the village of Charlton-All-Saints in the parish of Downton, south of Salisbury.
Ebsbury Down is a 132-acre (53 ha) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1975.
Parsonage Down is a 188.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1971. It lies about 7 miles (11 km) west of Amesbury, in Winterbourne Stoke parish.
Roundway Down and Covert is an 86 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Devizes in Wiltshire, England. It was notified in 1971.
Stockton Wood and Down is a 61.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the southwest of Stockton parish in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1951.
Starveall and Stony Down is a 22.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parishes of Codford and Wylye, Wiltshire, England, notified in 1971.
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The Laurie Arms is a pub at 238 Shepherd's Bush Road, Hammersmith, London. It was next door to the Hammersmith Palais, a long running dance hall and music venue from 1919, which hosted The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, David Bowie and the Sex Pistols, but was demolished in 2013.
West Woodhay Down is a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire and Hampshire. The site is near West Woodhay, west of Newbury.
Thanet Coast is an 816.9-hectare (2,019-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Whitstable and Ramsgate in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and overlaps two Special Area of Conservations. It is also part of a Ramsar Site and a Special Protection Area. Part of it is a Local Nature Reserve,
Oare Meadow is a 2-hectare (4.9-acre) nature reserve in Oare, north of Faversham in Kent. It is managed by the Kent Wildlife Trust. It is part of The Swale Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Northpark Copse to Snapelands Copse is a 101.4-hectare (251-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Midhurst in West Sussex.
Stockbridge Down is a 69.8-hectare (172-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Stockbridge in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2. 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.