Silbury Hill, one of the many SSSIs in Wiltshire designated for their grassland plant communities.

The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. In England the body responsible for designating SSSIs is Natural England, which chooses a site because of its fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features.[1] As of 2006, there are 134 sites designated in this Area of Search, of which the vast majority, 108, have been designated due to their biological interest, with just 21 due to their geological interest (and 5 for both).[2]

Natural England took over the role of designating and managing SSSIs from English Nature in October 2006 when it was formed from the amalgamation of English Nature, parts of the Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service. Natural England, like its predecessor, uses the 1974–1996 county system[3] and as such the same approach is followed here, rather than adopting the current local government or ceremonial county boundaries. The data in the table is taken from English Nature's website in the form of citation sheets for each SSSI.[4]

For other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search.

Sites

Site name Reason for designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological interest Geological interest Hectares Acres
Acres Farm Meadow Green tick 4.2 10.4 SU024927 1989 Map
River Avon System Green tick 507.8 1,254.8 SU073583 1996 Map
Baverstock Juniper Bank Green tick 2.6 6.4 SU035336 1971 Map
Bencroft Hill Meadows Green tick 5.1 12.6 SU962732 1988 Map
Bentley Wood Green tick 665.0 1,643.0 SU250295 1985 Map
Bincknoll Dip Woods Green tick 5.7 14.0 SU111796 1971 Map
Blackmoor Copse Green tick 31.3 77.2 SU234292 1971 Map
Botley Down Green tick 12.7 31.4 SU292598 1989 Map
Bowerchalke Downs Green tick 128.6 317.7 SU004218 1971 Map
Box Mine Green tick 56.6 139.8 ST838690 1991 Map
Bracknell Croft Green tick 4.8 11.8 SU180330 1971 Map
Bradley Woods Green tick 48.7 120.3 ST789410 1986 Map
Bratton Downs Green tick Green tick 395.8 978.0 ST925522 1971 Map
Brickworth Down and Dean Hill Green tick 118.6 293.9 SU246259 1951 Map
Brimsdown Hill Green tick 193.7 478.6 ST821391 1951 Map
Britford Water Meadows Green tick 18.2 45.0 SU166274 1975 Map
Burcombe Down Green tick 47.1 116.4 SU064295 1971 Map
Burderop Wood Green tick 48.5 119.8 SU165810 1971 Map
Calstone and Cherhill Downs Green tick 128.6 317.9 SU047692 1971 Map
Camp Down Green tick 7.3 18.2 SU120338 1965 Map
Charnage Down Chalk Pit Green tick 3.7 9.1 ST837329 1971 Map
Chickengrove Bottom Green tick 9.8 24.3 SU040216 1975 Map
Chilmark Quarries Green tick Green tick 9.7 23.9 ST974312 1977 Map
Chilton Foliat Meadows Green tick 54.6 134.9 SU315703 1971 Map
Clattinger Farm Green tick 60.3 149.0 SU012933 1971 Map
Clearbury Down Green tick 31.3 77.3 SU152240 1971 Map
Cley Hill Green tick 26.6 65.7 ST838449 1975 Map
Cloatley Manor Farm Meadows Green tick 12.1 29.9 ST981910 1997 Map
Clout's Wood Green tick 11.8 29.1 SU137796 1951 Map
Coate Water Green tick 51.1 126.4 SU188820 1971 Map
Cockey Down Green tick 15.2 37.6 SU170317 1971 Map
Colerne Park and Monk's Wood Green tick 53.7 132.6 ST838725 1951 Map
The Coombes, Hinton Parva Green tick 15.9 39.2 SU228826 1989 Map
Corsham Railway Cutting Green tick 6.6 16.4 ST862695 1971 Map
Cotswold Water Park Green tick 135.0 337 SU100960 1994 Map
Cranborne Chase Green tick 451.4 1,115.4 ST970180 1975 Map
Dank's Down and Truckle Hill Green tick 13.1 32.4 ST834758 1990 Map
Dead Maid Quarry Green tick 0.4 1.1 ST803324 1951 Map
Dinton Quarry Green tick 0.3 0.7 SU006308 1990 Map
Dinton Railway Cutting Green tick 0.3 0.7 SU008309 1990 Map
Distillery Farm Meadows Green tick 18.7 46.2 SU032898 1988 Map
East Harnham Meadows Green tick 17.3 42.7 SU151289 1995 Map
Ebsbury Down Green tick 53.4 132.0 SU054352 1975 Map
Emmett Hill Meadows Green tick 5.1 12.6 SU009901 1987 Map
Figsbury Ring Green tick 11.2 27.7 SU188338 1975 Map
Fonthill Grottoes Green tick 0.7 1.7 ST935315 1994 Map
Fyfield Down Green tick Green tick 325.3 803.8 SU136709 1951 Map
Gallows Hill Green tick 27.8 68.7 ST952244 1965 Map
Goldborough Farm Meadows Green tick 10.3 25.5 SU086800 Map
Great Cheverell Hill Green tick 33.2 82.1 ST966520 1971 Map
Great Quarry, Swindon Green tick 1.0 2.5 SU151836 1951 Map
Great Yews Green tick 29.3 72.3 SU120231 1951 Map
Gripwood Quarry Green tick 2.9 7.0 ST822603 1951 Map
Gutch Common Green tick 35.1 86.8 ST896259 1951 Map
Ham Hill Green tick 1.5 3.8 SU333617 1971 Map
Hang Wood Green tick 20.3 50.2 ST861319 1986 Map
Harries Ground, Rodbourne Green tick 6.9 17.0 ST930823 2003 Map
Haydon Meadow Green tick 6.4 15.8 SU120890 1999 Map
Heath Hill Farm Green tick 20.7 51.2 ST757336 1997 Map
Homington and Coombe Bissett Downs Green tick 25.0 61.8 SU104245 1971 Map
Honeybrook Farm Green tick 42.4 104.8 ST841730 1992 Map
Inwood, Warleigh Green tick 56.9 140.5 ST800633 1988 Map
Jones's Mill Green tick 11.6 28.7 SU168613 1975 Map
Kellaways – West Tytherton, River Avon Green tick 4.1 10.1 ST945750 1998 Map
River Kennet Green tick 112.7 278.5 SU203692 1995 Map
Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Green tick 22.9 56.9 SU316705 1996 Map
King's Play Hill Green tick 29.5 72.9 SU006658 1971 Map
Knapp and Barnett's Downs Green tick 71.4 176.4 SU030266 1971 Map
Knighton Downs and Wood Green tick 203.7 503.5 SU048237 1971 Map
Lady Down Quarry Green tick 0.2 0.6 ST961307 1990 Map
Landford Bog Green tick 11.6 28.7 SU259185 1987 Map
Landford Heath Green tick 11.8 29.0 SU265178 1994 Map
Langley Wood and Homan's Copse Green tick 219.3 541.9 SU230206 1985 Map
Little Grubbins Meadow Green tick 3.0 7.3 ST831773 1975 Map
Long Knoll Green tick 34.2 84.5 ST794376 1971 Map
Loosehanger Copse and Meadows Green tick 56.3 139.0 SU215195 1992 Map
Lower Coombe and Ferne Brook Meadows Green tick 11.3 28.0 ST916236 2002 Map
Lower Woodford Water Meadows Green tick 23.9 58.9 SU124347 1971 Map
Midford Valley Woods Green tick 24.6 60.8 ST769611 1975 Map
Morgan's Hill Green tick 12.6 31.1 SU028672 1951 Map
The New Forest Green tick Green tick 28,947.4 71,529.0 SU298081 1959 Map
North Meadow, Cricklade Green tick 24.6 109.7 SU094946 1971 Map
Odstock Down Green tick 12.1 29.9 SU139250 1975 Map
Okus Quarry Green tick 0.3 0.6 SU147836 1951 Map
Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon Green tick 1.8 4.4 SU153832 1975 Map
Out Woods Green tick 14.3 35.4 ST833763 1975 Map
Parsonage Down Green tick 188.6 466.1 SU050412 1971 Map
Pewsey Downs Green tick 305.3 754.4 SU113636 1951 Map
Picket and Clanger Wood Green tick 66.4 164.1 ST975543 1989 Map
Piggledene Green tick Green tick 4.7 11.6 SU141689 1965 Map
Pike Corner Green tick 15.2 37.6 SU036934 1986 Map
Pincombe Down Green tick 23.8 58.8 ST966217 1971 Map
Porton Down Green tick 1,561.8 3,859.4 SU240365 1977 Map
Porton Meadows Green tick 17.6 43.6 SU185362 1988 Map
Prescombe Down Green tick 76.2 188.3 ST985255 1951 Map
Rack Hill Green tick 10.6 26.1 ST842762 1975 Map
Ravensroost Wood Green tick 43.7 107.9 SU022882 1989 Map
Restrop Farm and Brockhurst Wood Green tick 56.5 139.6 SU073866 1992 Map
Rotherley Downs Green tick 120.1 296.6 ST946196 1989 Map
Roundway Down and Covert Green tick 86.0 212.5 SU000646 1971 Map
Salisbury Plain Green tick 19,689.9 48,655.7 SU070500 1975 Map
Savernake Forest Green tick 904.7 2,235.6 SU215665 1971 Map
Scratchbury and Cotley Hills Green tick 53.5 132.2 ST915437 1951 Map
Seend Cleeve Quarry Green tick 3.0 7.4 ST933609 1987 Map
Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting Green tick 1.2 2.9 ST937610 1965 Map
Silbury Hill Green tick 2.3 5.6 SU100685 1965 Map
Spye Park Green tick 90.3 223.1 ST952674 1951 Map
Stanton St. Quintin Quarry and Motorway Cutting Green tick 2.2 5.4 ST918796 1971 Map
Starveall and Stony Down Green tick 22.5 55.7 ST991400 1971 Map
Steeple Ashton Green tick 26.5 65.6 ST914558 1998 Map
Steeple Langford Down Green tick 21.8 53.7 SU036387 1971 Map
Stert Brook Exposure Green tick 0.4 1.0 SU017583 1989 Map
Stockton Wood and Down Green tick 61.5 151.8 ST958366 1951 Map
Stoke Common Meadows Green tick 10.2 25.1 SU064904 1994 Map
Stratford Toney Down Green tick 23.1 57.2 SU095246 1987 Map
Sutton Lane Meadows Green tick 3.4 8.5 ST946777 1988 Map
Teffont Evias Quarry / Lane Cutting Green tick 3.6 8.9 ST990310 1989 Map
Throope Down Green tick 34.4 97.4 SU084246 1971 Map
River Till Green tick 32.1 79.2 SU051452 2000 Map
Tytherington Down Green tick 5.9 14.6 ST912385 1975 Map
Upper Chicksgrove Quarry Green tick 5.6 13.8 ST962296 1971 Map
Upper Waterhay Meadow Green tick 2.8 6.8 SU068937 1971 Map
Upton Cow Down Green tick 16.4 40.5 ST875491 1989 Map
West Harnham Chalk Pit Green tick 2.8 6.9 SU128287 1971 Map
West Yatton Down Green tick 14.4 36.0 ST852760 1971 Map
Westbury Ironstone Quarry Green tick 0.6 1.4 ST853508 1965 Map
Whiteparish Common Green tick 64.5 159.4 SU255233 1965 Map
Whitesheet Hill Green tick 136.1 336.3 ST804346 1965 Map
Win Green Down Green tick 26.0 64.3 ST927209 1971 Map
Winklebury Hill Green tick 63.0 155.5 ST952216 1971 Map
Winsley Mines Green tick 1.5 3.7 ST795607 1989 Map
Wootton Bassett Mud Spring Green tick 0.8 2.0 SU078815 1997 Map
Wylye and Church Dean Downs Green tick 80.9 200.0 SU002361 1951 Map
Yarnbury Castle Green tick 9.1 22.5 SU037403 1951 Map

Notes

A Data rounded to one decimal place.
B Grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system, also known as OSGB36, and is the system used by the Ordnance Survey.[5]
C Link to maps using the MAGIC map service provided by Defra.

References

  1. ↑ "Notification of SSSIs". Natural England. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2007.
  2. ↑ "SSSIs in Wiltshire". Natural England. Retrieved 3 March 2007.
  3. ↑ "County search of SSSIs". Natural England. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2007.
  4. ↑ English Nature citation sheets for each SSSI. Retrieved on 2007-03-03. (PDF files).
  5. ↑ "Guide to National Grid". Ordnance Survey. Archived from the original on 27 October 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2007.

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