River Avon System

River Avon SystemSite of Special Scientific Interest

The River Avon south of Fordingbridge

Location| Hampshire
Wiltshire
Grid reference| SU 126 251[1]
Interest| Biological
Area| 475.9 hectares (1,176 acres)[1]
Notification| 1996[1]
Location map| Magic Map

River Avon System is a 475.9-hectare (1,176-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire and Wiltshire, southern England.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.[3] It is part of the Avon Valley and New Forest Ramsar sites[4][5] and is also part of two Special Protection Areas: Solent and Southampton Water, and the New Forest.[6][7]

This site consists of stretches of the River Avon and its tributaries, which are described by Natural England as "of national and international importance for their wildlife communities". It has more than 180 species of aquatic plants and one of the most diverse fish species in the country. There is also a rich invertebrate fauna and mammals include water voles and water shrews.[8]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: River Avon System". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
2. ^ "Map of River Avon System". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
3. ^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2\. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–68. ISBN 0521 21403 3.
4. ^ "Designated Sites View: Avon Valley". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
5. ^ "Designated Sites View: The New Forest". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
6. ^ "Designated Sites View: Solent and Southampton Water". Special Protection Areas. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
7. ^ "Designated Sites View: The New Forest". Special Protection Areas. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
8. ^ "River Avon System citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 May 2020.

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Coordinates: 51°01′30″N 1°49′19″W﻿ / ﻿51.025°N 1.822°W﻿ / 51.025; -1.822

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire

Biological|

* Alresford Pond
* Ashford Hill Woods and Meadows
* Avon Valley (Bickton to Christchurch)
* Baddesley Common
* Basingstoke Canal
* Beacon Hill, Warnford
* Bentley Station Meadow
* Bere Mill Meadows
* Binswood
* Blackwater Valley
* Botley Wood and Everett's and Mushes Copses
* Boulsbury Wood
* Bourley and Long Valley
* Bramshill
* Bramshott and Ludshott Commons
* Bransbury Common
* Breamore Marsh
* Brickworth Down and Dean Hill
* Brockley Warren
* Broughton Down
* Browndown
* Broxhead and Kingsley Commons
* Burghclere Beacon
* Burton Common
* Butser Hill
* Butter Wood
* Castle Bottom to Yateley and Hawley Commons
* Catherington Down
* Cheesefoot Head
* Chichester Harbour
* Chilbolton Common
* Coombe Wood and The Lythe
* Coulters Dean
* Crab Wood
* Danebury Hill
* Dibden Bay
* East Aston Common
* Ebblake Bog
* Eelmoor Marsh
* Eling and Bury Marshes
* Fleet Pond
* Fletchwood Meadows
* Foxlease and Ancells Meadows
* Galley Down Wood
* Gilkicker Lagoon
* Greywell Fen
* Greywell Tunnel
* Hazeley Heath
* Highclere Park
* Hook Common and Bartley Heath
* Hook Heath Meadows
* Hurst Castle and Lymington River Estuary
* Hythe to Calshot Marshes
* Itchen Navigation
* Ladle Hill
* Langstone Harbour
* Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary
* Lincegrove and Hackett's Marshes
* Lower Test Valley
* Lye Heath Marsh
* Lymington River
* Lymington River Reedbeds
* Mapledurwell Fen
* Martin and Tidpit Downs
* Micheldever Spoil Heaps
* Moorgreen Meadows
* The Moors, Bishop's Waltham
* Mottisfont Bats
* The New Forest
* Noar Hill
* Norley Copse and Meadow
* North Solent
* Odiham Common with Bagwell Green and Shaw
* Old Burghclere Lime Quarry
* Old Winchester Hill
* Pamber Forest and Silchester Common
* Peake Wood
* Poors Common
* Porton Down
* Portsdown
* Portsmouth Harbour
* Quarley Hill Fort
* Ratlake Meadows
* River Avon System
* River Itchen
* River Test
* Ron Ward's Meadow With Tadley Pastures
* Roydon Woods
* Rushmore and Conholt Downs
* Selborne Common
* Shortheath Common
* Sidley Wood
* Sinah Common
* Southampton Common
* Sowley Pond
* St. Catherine's Hill
* Stockbridge Common Marsh
* Stockbridge Down
* Stockbridge Fen
* Titchfield Haven
* Toyd Down and Quarry
* Trodds Copse
* Upper Greensand Hangers: Empshott to Hawkley
* Upper Greensand Hangers: Wyck to Wheatley
* Upper Hamble Estuary and Woods
* Waltham Chase Meadows
* Warblington Meadow
* Warnborough Green
* Wealden Edge Hangers
* West Minley Meadow
* West Woodhay Down
* Wick Wood and Worldham Hangers
* The Wild Grounds
* Woolmer Forest

Geological|

* Butser Hill
* Downend Chalk Pit
* Dunbridge Pit
* Duncroft Farm Pit
* Heath Brow
* Highcliffe to Milford Cliffs
* Hurst Castle and Lymington River Estuary
* Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary
* Lymington River
* The New Forest
* North Solent

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