Stockbridge Down

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]

Stockbridge Down
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of SearchHampshire
Grid referenceSU 379 349[1]
InterestBiological
Area69.8 hectares (172 acres)[1]
Notification1985[1]
Location mapMagic 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
  1. "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. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 130. ISBN 0521 21403 3.
  4. "Stockbridge Down". National Trust. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  5. "Woolbury Ring, Stockbridge". Historic England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  6. "Stockbridge Down citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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