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 part of it is a Scheduled Monument, with an Iron Age hillfort and fourteen Bronze Age burial mounds.[4][5]
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
 | |
| Location | Hampshire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SU 379 349[1] |
| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 69.8 hectares (172 acres)[1] |
| Notification | 1985[1] |
| Location map | Magic Map |
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]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Stockbridge Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "Map of Stockbridge Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
- ^ "Stockbridge Down". National Trust. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- ^ "Woolbury Ring, Stockbridge". Historic England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "Stockbridge Down citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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