Stockbridge Down Explained

Stockbridge Down
Aos:	Hampshire
Interest:	Biological
Area:	69.8ha
Notifydate:	1985
Map:	Magic Map

Stockbridge Down is a 69.8abbr=offNaNabbr=off 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]}

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

51.112°N -1.46°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Designated Sites View: Stockbridge Down . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 19 May 2020.
2. Web site: Map of Stockbridge Down. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 19 May 2020.
3. Book: Derek Ratcliffe

   . Derek . Ratcliffe . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 130. Derek Ratcliffe . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .

4. Web site: Stockbridge Down . National Trust. 24 April 2020.
5. Web site: Woolbury Ring, Stockbridge . Historic England. 19 May 2020.
6. Web site: Stockbridge Down citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 19 May 2020.