South Downs National Park: Natural Attraction
Places and attractions in the Natural attraction category
Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill, Warnford is a 46.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Warnford in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, and an area of 40.1 hectares is a national nature reserve.
Butser Hill
Butser Hill is a 239.7-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Petersfield in Hampshire. It is a national nature reserve and a Special Area of Conservation.
South Downs
The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about 260 square miles across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east.
Alice Holt Research Station
The Alice Holt Research Station is one of two British forestry research institutes, and is located in north-east Hampshire.
Alice Holt Forest
Alice Holt Forest is a royal forest in Hampshire, situated some 4 miles south of Farnham, Surrey. Once predominantly an ancient oak forest, it was particularly noted in the 18th and 19th centuries for the timber it supplied for the building of ships for the Royal Navy.
Henwood Down
Henwood Down is one of the highest points in the county of Hampshire, England, and in the South Downs, reaching a height of 201 metres above sea level. Its prominence of 64 metres qualifies it as a Tump.
Selborne Hill
Selborne Hill is one of the highest points in the county of Hampshire, England. It is one of the East Hampshire Hangers, a line of prominent hills on the eastern scarp slope of the Hampshire Downs, and reaches 211 metres above sea level.
Head Down
Head Down is one of the highest points in the county of Hampshire, England, and in the South Downs, rising to 205 metres above sea level. The tree-covered Head Down rises about 1 kilometre south of the village of Buriton in Hampshire.
War Down
At 244 metres, War Down is one of the highest hills in the county of Hampshire, England and the second highest summit in the Hampshire part of the South Downs. Just 1 kilometre to the northwest is the South Downs' highest point at Butser Hill. Much of the hill is covered in mixed forest and there is a trig point at 244 metres.
Loddon Nature Reserve
Loddon Nature Reserve is a 14-hectare nature reserve on the edge of the village of Twyford in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Seaford Head Nature Reserve
Seaford Head Nature Reserve can be found to the east of Seaford, East Sussex, covering an area from Seaford Head to the Cuckmere Valley and inland encompassing the River Cuckmere. The Reserve is jointly owned by Seaford Town Council, the National Trust and East Sussex County Council.
Wether Down
Wether Down is one of the highest hills in the county of Hampshire, England, and in the South Downs, rising to 234 metres above sea level. Wether Hill is largely treeless and there is a trig point and transmission mast at the summit. Cross dykes and a long barrow in the vicinity provide evidence of prehistoric settlement in the area.
Chappetts Copse
Chappetts Copse is a 12-hectare nature reserve east of West Meon in Hampshire. It is owned and managed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. This ancient ash and beech wood has many rare fungi and plants.
Woolmer Forest
Woolmer Forest is a 1,298.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Bordon in Hampshire and West Sussex. It is also a Special Area of Conservation and part of the Wealden Heaths Phase II Special Protection Area. Two areas are Nature Conservation Review sites, Grade I.
Titnore Wood
Titnore Wood is an area of ancient woodland to the north-west of Worthing in West Sussex. With neighbouring Goring Wood it forms one of the last remaining blocks of ancient woodland on the West Sussex coastal plain.
Noar Hill
Noar Hill is a 63-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Selborne in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and part of East Hampshire Hangers Special Area of Conservation.
Goleigh Hill
Goleigh Hill is one of the highest points in the county of Hampshire, England. It is part of the Hampshire Downs and reaches a height of 220 metres above sea level.
Wheatham Hill
At 249 metres, Wheatham Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Hampshire, England. It is part of the North Hampshire Downs.
Oakham Hill
Oakham Hill is one of the highest points in the county of Hampshire, England, and in the South Downs, rising to 202 metres above sea level.
Pidham Hill
Pidham Hill is a hill in the county of Hampshire, England. The summit elevation is 699 feet AMSL. Pidham Hill is about 2 kilometres east-northeast of the village of East Meon in Hampshire, north of the road to Langrish.
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