Ivinghoe Hills

Ivinghoe Hills
Site of Special Scientific Interest
View of Ivinghoe Beacon from Steps Hill
Area of Search	Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SP963159
Interest	Biological
Area	210.4 hectares
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Ivinghoe Hills is a 210.4 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire, and part of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is listed in A Nature Conservation Review. The Ridgeway long-distance footpath ends and the Icknield Way Path starts in the site on Ivinghoe Beacon. An Iron Age fort on Ivinghoe Beacon and a tumulus on Gallows Hill are Scheduled Monuments. The site is part of the National Trust's Ashridge Estate, apart from a small area which belongs to Buckinghamshire County Council.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The site is biologically rich, and it has varied habitats including unimproved chalk grassland, which has some nationally rare species, semi-natural woodland and scrub. Some of the grassland is grazed by sheep and cattle. There are two areas of ancient woodland. An area of ploughed land on Gallows Hill has been retained within the SSSI because some of the weeds are nationally scarce.^[1]

There is access from the National Trust car park off the B488 road.^[4]

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References

1 2 "Ivinghoe Hills citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ "Map of Ivinghoe Hills". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ "Ashridge Estate: The Hills are Alive at Ashridge". National Trust. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
↑ "Ivinghoe Beacon". Bucks Earth Heritage Group. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire

Biological	Ashridge Commons and Woods Aston Clinton Ragpits Aston Rowant Aston Rowant Woods Bacombe and Coombe Hills Black Park Bradenham Woods, Park Wood and The Coppice Burnham Beeches Buttlers Hangings Dancersend Dancersend Waterworks Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens Fayland Chalk Bank Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir and Wood Frieth Meadows Frogmore Meadows Gomm Valley Grangelands and Pulpit Hill Grendon and Doddershall Woods Ham Home-cum-Hamgreen Woods Hodgemoor Wood Hollowhill and Pullingshill Woods Homefield Wood Howe Park Wood Ivinghoe Hills Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Littleworth Common Lodge Hill Long Herdon Meadow Mid Colne Valley Millfield Wood Moorend Common Naphill Common Old Rectory Meadows Oxley Mead Pilch Fields Pitstone Hill Poker's Pond Meadow Rodbed Wood Rushbeds Wood and Railway Cutting Shabbington Woods Complex Sheephouse Wood Stoke Common Swain's Wood Temple Island Meadows Tingewick Meadows Tring Reservoirs Turville Hill Weston Turville Reservoir Widdenton Park Wood Windsor Hill Wormsley Chalk Banks Yardley Chase

Geological	Bierton Clay Pit Bolter End Sand Pit Bugle Quarry Fern House Gravel Pit Froghall Brickworks Muswell Hill Pitstone Quarry South Lodge Pit Stone Warren Farm, Stewkley

Coordinates: 51°50′02″N 0°36′11″W / 51.833861°N 0.603099°W / 51.833861; -0.603099

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