Stockbridge Down is a biological
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...
east of
Stockbridge in
Hampshire.
It is a
Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2. 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.
This site has a variety of scrub and grassland habitats on a north-west facing slope of chalk and a
clay-with-flints
In geology, clay-with-flints was the name given by William Whitaker in 1861 to a peculiar deposit of stiff red, brown or yellow clay containing unworn whole flints as well as angular shattered fragments, also with a variable admixture of rounded ...
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.
References
{{SSSIs Hampshire
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire
National Trust properties in Hampshire
Nature Conservation Review sites