Stockbridge Down
Protected area in Hampshire, England
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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 parts of it are designated as scheduled monuments, including an Iron Age hillfort (Woolbury) 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]
