Down Bank

Down Bank
	Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search	Kent
Grid reference	TR 083 521 [1]
Interest	Biological
Area	5.9 hectares (15 acres) [1]
Notification	1990 [1]
Location map	Magic Map

Last updated March 25, 2019

Down Bank is a 5.9-hectare (15-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Canterbury in Kent.^[1]^[2]

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. SSSI/ASSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in the United Kingdom are based upon them, including national nature reserves, Ramsar sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation. The acronym "SSSI" is often pronounced "triple-S I".

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour.

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south west. The county also shares borders with Essex along the estuary of the River Thames, and with the French department of Pas-de-Calais through the Channel Tunnel. The county town is Maidstone.

This sloping chalk meadow has the nationally endangered black-veined moth and twenty-eight species of butterfly, including the nationally scarce Duke of Burgundy. Grassland flora include two nationally scarce species, small bedstraw and man orchid.^[3]

Hamearis lucina, the Duke of Burgundy, the only member of the genus Hamearis, is a European butterfly in the family Riodinidae. For many years, it was known as the "Duke of Burgundy fritillary", because the adult's chequered pattern is strongly reminiscent of "true" fritillaries of the family Nymphalidae.

A public footpath goes through the site.

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References

1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Down Bank". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
↑ "Map of Down Bank". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
↑ "Down Bank citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

Coordinates: 51°13′48″N0°58′55″E / 51.23°N 0.982°E / 51.23; 0.982

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[dsv-1] 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Down Bank". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

[map-2] "Map of Down Bank". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

[3] "Down Bank citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.