Turville Hill is a biological
Site of Special Scientific Interest in
Turville
Turville is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills, west of High Wycombe, east-southeast of Watlington, north of Henley-on-Thames and 2 miles (3 km) from the Oxfordshire border. The name is Anglo-S ...
in
Buckinghamshire. It is in the
Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; , AHNE) is an area of countryside in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value. Areas are designated in recognition of ...
.
Cobstone Windmill
Cobstone Mill was built around 1816 on Turville Hill in Buckinghamshire, England, and overlooks the village of Turville. It is a smock mill that replaced the original mill that had stood there since the 16th century. The machinery was previously ...
, also known as Turville Windmill, is located at the top.
This is a steeply sloping hill, which is a fine example of grazed chalk grassland in the southern Buckinghamshire Chilterns. There is a wide variety of plants, some of which provide food for the larvae of important butterflies on the site. Two butterflies are rare, the
silver spotted skipper and the
Adonis blue. Another rare invertebrate is the
orange clearwing moth.
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There are footpaths across the hill from Turville, but the windmill is private property.
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References
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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire
Chiltern Hills