Hurst Castle and Lymington River Estuary

Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary (grid reference SZ340940) is a 1109.93 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), in southwest Hampshire, notified in 1961.

It includes the following areas:

  • Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes.
  • Hurst Spit
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire
  • Basingstoke Canal
  • Beacon Hill, Warnford
  • Blackwater Valley
  • Boulsbury Wood
  • Bourley and Long Valley
  • Burghclere Beacon
  • Butser Hill
  • Catherington Down
  • Cheesefoot Head
  • Chichester Harbour
  • Dibden Bay
  • Ebblake Bog
  • Fleet Pond
  • Foxlease And Ancells Meadows
  • Galley Down Wood
  • Greywell Tunnel
  • Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary
  • Itchen Navigation
  • Ladle Hill
  • Langstone Harbour
  • Lymington River
  • Lymington River Reedbeds
  • Mottisfont Bats
  • New Forest
  • Noar Hill
  • Old Winchester Hill
  • Pamber Forest and Silchester Common
  • Portsmouth Harbour
  • River Avon System
  • River Itchen
  • River Test
  • Selborne Common
  • Southampton Common
  • Sowley Pond
  • St. Catherine's Hill
  • Trodds Copse
  • Woolmer Forest
Neighbouring areas
Berkshire
Dorset
Isle of Wight
Surrey
West Sussex
Wiltshire

Coordinates: 50°44′41″N 1°31′10″W / 50.74462°N 1.51948°W / 50.74462; -1.51948

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