Hurst Hill, Oxfordshire
Hill in Oxfordshire, England
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Hurst Hill or Cumnor Hurst is a 20.6-hectare (51-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Oxford in Oxfordshire.[1][2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.[3]
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| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
| |
 Location of Hurst Hill. | |
| Area of search | Oxfordshire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SP 476 041[1] |
| Interest | Biological Geological |
| Area | 20.6 hectares (51 acres)[1] |
| Notification date | 1986[1] |
| Location map | Magic Map |
The site is owned by All Souls College, Oxford,[4] and its mosses and liverworts have been monitored for more than fifty years. The hill is also important geologically. In 1879 a fossil of a Camptosaurus prestwichii, a large herbivorous dinosaur dating to the Upper Jurassic 153 million years ago, was found on the site.[5] The fossil belongs to a typically North African genus, and provides evidence of a land bridge across the proto-Atlantic in the Late Jurassic.[6]
The hill is mentioned in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy.[4]
