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Heyshott Down
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location	West Sussex
Grid reference	SU 897 168
Interest	Biological
Area	42.6 hectares (105 acres)
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Heyshott Down is a 42.6-hectare (105-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Midhurst in West Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.

This site on the South Downs is unimproved chalk grassland, which is a nationally rare habitat. The grassland is plant-rich and it is nationally important for mosses and liverworts, such as Antitrichia curtipendula, Hylocomium brevirostre and Rhytidiadelphus loreus. The site is also nationally important for spiders and harvestmen and it is one of only two sites in Britain where the spider Tapinocyboides pygmaea has been recorded.

There is access by footpaths from Cocking and Heyshott.

References

^ "Designated Sites View: Heyshott Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
"Map of Heyshott Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 120. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
"Heyshott Down citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 May 2019.

50°56′38″N 0°43′30″W / 50.944°N 0.725°W / 50.944; -0.725

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