| Chanctonbury Hill | |
| Aos: | West Sussex |
| Interest: | Biological |
| Area: | 82.7ha |
| Notifydate: | 1985 |
| Map: | Magic Map |
Chanctonbury Hill is an 82.7abbr=offNaNabbr=off biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Steyning in West Sussex.[1] [2] Part of it is Chanctonbury Ring, an early Iron Age hillfort which contains two Romano-Celtic temples and which is a Scheduled Monument.
This site on the steep slope of the South Downs is mainly woodland with some areas of chalk grassland. A dew pond has great crested newts, a species protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. More than sixty species of breeding birds have been recorded, including meadow pipits, corn buntings and green woodpeckers.[3]