List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire - Sites

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Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y
Site name Reason for designation Area Grid reference Year in which notified Map
Biological interest Geological interest Hectares Acres
Acres Farm Meadow Y 4.2 10.4 SU024927 1989
River Avon System Y 507.8 1,254.8 SU073583 1996
Baverstock Juniper Bank Y 2.6 6.4 SU035336 1971
Bencroft Hill Meadows Y 5.1 12.6 SU962732 1988
Bentley Wood Y 665.0 1,643.0 SU250295 1985
Bincknoll Dip Woods Y 5.7 14.0 SU111796 1971
Blackmoor Copse Y 31.3 77.2 SU234292 1971
Botley Down Y 12.7 31.4 SU292598 1989
Bowerchalke Downs Y 128.6 317.7 SU004218 1971
Box Mine Y 56.6 139.8 ST838690 1991
Bracknell Croft Y 4.8 11.8 SU180330 1971
Bradley Woods Y 48.7 120.3 ST789410 1986
Bratton Downs Y Y 395.8 978.0 ST925522 1971
Brickworth Down and Dean Hill Y 118.6 293.9 SU246259 1951
Brimsdown Hill Y 193.7 478.6 ST821391 1951
Britford Water Meadows Y 18.2 45.0 SU166274 1975
Burcombe Down Y 47.1 116.4 SU064295 1971
Burderop Wood Y 48.5 119.8 SU165810 1971
Calstone and Cherhill Downs Y 128.6 317.9 SU047692 1971
Camp Down Y 7.3 18.2 SU120338 1965
Charnage Down Chalk Pit Y 3.7 9.1 ST837329 1971
Chickengrove Bottom Y 9.8 24.3 SU040216 1975
Chilmark Quarries Y Y 9.7 23.9 ST974312 1977
Chilton Foliat Meadows Y 54.6 134.9 SU315703 1971
Clattinger Farm Y 60.3 149.0 SU012933 1971
Clearbury Down Y 31.3 77.3 SU152240 1971
Cley Hill Y 26.6 65.7 ST838449 1975
Cloatley Manor Farm Meadows Y 12.1 29.9 ST981910 1997
Clout's Wood Y 11.8 29.1 SU137796 1951
Coate Water Y 51.1 126.4 SU188820 1971
Cockey Down Y 15.2 37.6 SU170317 1971
Colerne Park and Monk's Wood Y 53.7 132.6 ST838725 1951
The Coombes, Hinton Parva Y 15.9 39.2 SU228826 1989
Corsham Railway Cutting Y 6.6 16.4 ST862695 1971
Cotswold Water Park Y 135.0 337 SU100960 1994
Cranborne Chase Y 451.4 1,115.4 ST970180 1975
Dank's Down and Truckle Hill Y 13.1 32.4 ST834758 1990
Dead Maid Quarry Y 0.4 1.1 ST803324 1951
Dinton Quarry Y 0.3 0.7 SU006308 1990
Dinton Railway Cutting Y 0.3 0.7 SU008309 1990
Distillery Farm Meadows Y 18.7 46.2 SU032898 1988
East Harnham Meadows Y 17.3 42.7 SU151289 1995
Ebsbury Down Y 53.4 132.0 SU054352 1975
Emmett Hill Meadows Y 5.1 12.6 SU009901 1987
Figsbury Ring Y 11.2 27.7 SU188338 1975
Fonthill Grottoes Y 0.7 1.7 ST935315 1994
Fyfield Down Y Y 325.3 803.8 SU136709 1951
Gallows Hill Y 27.8 68.7 ST952244 1965
Goldborough Farm Meadows Y 10.3 25.5 SU086800
Great Cheverell Hill Y 33.2 82.1 ST966520 1971
Great Quarry, Swindon Y 1.0 2.5 SU151836 1951
Great Yews Y 29.3 72.3 SU120231 1951
Gripwood Quarry Y 2.9 7.0 ST822603 1951
Gutch Common Y 35.1 86.8 ST896259 1951
Ham Hill Y 1.5 3.8 SU333617 1971
Hang Wood Y 20.3 50.2 ST861319 1986
Harries Ground, Rodbourne Y 6.9 17.0 ST930823 2003
Haydon Meadow Y 6.4 15.8 SU120890 1999
Heath Hill Farm Y 20.7 51.2 ST757336 1997
Homington and Coombe Bissett Downs Y 25.0 61.8 SU104245 1971
Honeybrook Farm Y 42.4 104.8 ST841730 1992
Inwood, Warleigh Y 56.9 140.5 ST800633 1988
Jones's Mill Y 11.6 28.7 SU168613 1975
Kellaways - West Tytherton, River Avon Y 4.1 10.1 ST945750 1998
River Kennet Y 112.7 278.5 SU203692 1995
Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Y 22.9 56.9 SU316705 1996
King's Play Hill Y 29.5 72.9 SU006658 1971
Knapp and Barnett's Downs Y 71.4 176.4 SU030266 1971
Knighton Downs and Wood Y 203.7 503.5 SU048237 1971
Lady Down Quarry Y 0.2 0.6 ST961307 1990
Landford Bog Y 11.6 28.7 SU259185 1987
Landford Heath Y 11.8 29.0 SU265178 1994
Langley Wood and Homan's Copse Y 219.3 541.9 SU230206 1985
Little Grubbins Meadow Y 3.0 7.3 ST831773 1975
Long Knoll Y 34.2 84.5 ST794376 1971
Loosehanger Copse and Meadows Y 56.3 139.0 SU215195 1992
Lower Coombe and Ferne Brook Meadows Y 11.3 28.0 ST916236 2002
Lower Woodford Water Meadows Y 23.9 58.9 SU124347 1971
Midford Valley Woods Y 24.6 60.8 ST769611 1975
Morgan's Hill Y 12.6 31.1 SU028672 1951
The New Forest Y Y 28,947.4 71,529.0 SU298081 1959
North Meadow, Cricklade Y 24.6 109.7 SU094946 1971
Odstock Down Y 12.1 29.9 SU139250 1975
Okus Quarry Y 0.3 0.6 SU147836 1951
Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon Y 1.8 4.4 SU153832 1975
Out Woods Y 14.3 35.4 ST833763 1975
Parsonage Down Y 188.6 466.1 SU050412 1971
Pewsey Downs Y 305.3 754.4 SU113636 1951
Picket and Clanger Wood Y 66.4 164.1 ST975543 1989
Piggledene Y Y 4.7 11.6 SU141689 1965
Pike Corner Y 15.2 37.6 SU036934 1986
Pincombe Down Y 23.8 58.8 ST966217 1971
Porton Down Y 1,561.8 3,859.4 SU240365 1977
Porton Meadows Y 17.6 43.6 SU185362 1988
Prescombe Down Y 76.2 188.3 ST985255 1951
Rack Hill Y 10.6 26.1 ST842762 1975
Ravensroost Wood Y 43.7 107.9 SU022882 1989
Restrop Farm and Brockhurst Wood Y 56.5 139.6 SU073866 1992
Rotherley Downs Y 120.1 296.6 ST946196 1989
Roundway Down and Covert Y 86.0 212.5 SU000646 1971
Salisbury Plain Y 19,689.9 48,655.7 SU070500 1975
Savernake Forest Y 904.7 2,235.6 SU215665 1971
Scratchbury and Cotley Hills Y 53.5 132.2 ST915437 1951
Seend Cleeve Quarry Y 3.0 7.4 ST933609 1987
Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting Y 1.2 2.9 ST937610 1965
Silbury Hill Y 2.3 5.6 SU100685 1965
Spye Park Y 90.3 223.1 ST952674 1951
Stanton St. Quintin Quarry and Motorway Cutting Y 2.2 5.4 ST918796 1971
Starveall and Stony Down Y 22.5 55.7 ST991400 1971
Steeple Ashton Y 26.5 65.6 ST914558 1998
Steeple Langford Down Y 21.8 53.7 SU036387 1971
Stert Brook Exposure Y 0.4 1.0 SU017583 1989
Stockton Wood and Down Y 61.5 151.8 ST958366 1951
Stoke Common Meadows Y 10.2 25.1 SU064904 1994
Stratford Toney Down Y 23.1 57.2 SU095246 1987
Sutton Lane Meadows Y 3.4 8.5 ST946777 1988
Teffont Evias Quarry / Lane Cutting Y 3.6 8.9 ST990310 1989
Throope Down Y 34.4 97.4 SU084246 1971
River Till Y 32.1 79.2 SU051452 2000
Tytherington Down Y 5.9 14.6 ST912385 1975
Upper Chicksgrove Quarry Y 5.6 13.8 ST962296 1971
Upper Waterhay Meadow Y 2.8 6.8 SU068937 1971
Upton Cow Down Y 16.4 40.5 ST875491 1989
West Harnham Chalk Pit Y 2.8 6.9 SU128287 1971
West Yatton Down Y 14.4 36.0 ST852760 1971
Westbury Ironstone Quarry Y 0.6 1.4 ST853508 1965
Whiteparish Common Y 64.5 159.4 SU255233 1965
Whitesheet Hill Y 136.1 336.3 ST804346 1965
Win Green Down Y 26.0 64.3 ST927209 1971
Winklebury Hill Y 63.0 155.5 ST952216 1971
Winsley Mines Y 1.5 3.7 ST795607 1989
Wootton Bassett Mud Spring Y 0.8 2.0 SU078815 1997
Wylye and Church Dean Downs Y 80.9 200.0 SU002361 1951
Yarnbury Castle Y 9.1 22.5 SU037403 1951

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