Park Farm Down

Park Farm DownSite of Special Scientific Interest

Location within Berkshire

Location| Berkshire
Grid reference| SU 298 825[1]
Coordinates| 51°32′28″N 1°34′19″W﻿ / ﻿51.541°N 1.572°W﻿ / 51.541; -1.572
Interest| Biological
Area| 3.3 hectares (8.2 acres)[1]
Notification| 1982[1]
Location map| Magic Map

Park Farm Down or Parkfarm Down is a 3.3-hectare (8.2-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Lambourn in Berkshire.[1][2] It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[3]

## Geography[edit]

The site features an area of scattered sarsen stones which are now extremely rare on the Berkshire Downs.[3]

## Fauna[edit]

The site has the following Fauna:[3][4]

### Lychens[edit]

* Buellia saxorum
* Candelariella coralliza
* Ramalina siliquosa

## References[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Park Farm Down.

1. ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Park Farm Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
2. ^ "Map of Park Farm Down". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
3. ^ a b c "Park Farm Down citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
4. ^ "Condition of SSSI Units for Site Parkfarm Down SSSI". Natural england. Retrieved 9 March 2017.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire

Biological|

* Aldermaston Gravel Pits
* Ashridge Wood
* Avery's Pightle
* Bisham Woods
* Blackwater Valley
* Bowdown and Chamberhouse Woods
* Boxford Water Meadows
* Bray Meadows
* Bray Pennyroyal Field
* Briff Lane Meadows
* Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths
* Catmore and Winterly Copses
* Chawridge Bourne
* Cleeve Hill
* Cock Marsh
* Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging
* Coombe Wood, Frilsham
* Croker's Hole
* Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods
* Easton Farm Meadow
* Enborne Copse
* Englemere Pond
* Freeman's Marsh
* Great Thrift Wood
* Greenham and Crookham Commons
* Heath Lake
* Hog's Hole
* Holies Down
* Inkpen and Walbury Hills
* Inkpen Common
* Inkpen Crocus Field
* Irish Hill Copse
* Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain
* Kennet Valley Alderwoods
* King's Copse
* Lardon Chase
* Lodge Wood and Sandford Mill
* Longmoor Bog
* Old Copse, Beenham
* Park Farm Down
* Redhill Wood
* River Kennet
* River Lambourn
* Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths
* Seven Barrows
* Snelsmore Common
* Stanford End Mill and River Loddon
* Streatley Warren
* Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows
* Swinley Park and Brick Pits
* Thatcham Reed Beds
* Wasing Wood Ponds
* Wellington College Bog
* West Woodhay Down
* West's Meadow, Aldermaston
* Westfield Farm Chalk Bank
* White Shute
* Windsor Forest and Great Park
* Woolhampton Reed Bed
* Wraysbury and Hythe End Gravel Pits
* Wraysbury No 1 Gravel Pit
* Wykery Copse

Geological|

* Boxford Chalk Pit
* Brimpton Pit
* Cannoncourt Farm Pit
* Cold Ash Quarry
* Fognam Chalk Quarry
* Hamstead Marshall Pit
* Pincent's Kiln
* Winterbourne Chalk Pit

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