Aldbury Nowers

Aldbury Nowers
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Hertfordshire
Grid reference	SP952135
Interest	Biological
Area	19.7 hectares
Notification	1990
Location map	Magic Map

Aldbury Nowers is a 19.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) north-east of Tring in Hertfordshire. The site was notified in 1990 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.^[1]^[2] It is managed by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. The site, formerly known as "Duchie's Piece," comprises two areas of hillside, linked by The Ridgeway. The site hosts the flowers of chalk grassland and has butterfly habitats with several different species of butterfly including the Duke of Burgundy, hairstreaks and the Essex skipper. The site contains large amounts of woodland and calcareous grassland.^[1]^[3]

Northwest of the village of Aldbury, it adjoins the Pitstone Hill SSSI in Buckinghamshire and provides views over the Tring Gap and Vale of Aylesbury.^[1]^[3]

The site is always open and there is access by a footpath from Northfield Road.^[3]

References

1 2 3 "Aldbury Nowers" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 21 February 2006.
↑ "Map of Aldbury Nowers". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
1 2 3 "Aldbury Nowers". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 2011-01-07.

Coordinates: 51°48′42″N 0°37′08″W / 51.811569°N 0.618893°W / 51.811569; -0.618893

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

Biological	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Amwell Quarry Ashridge Commons and Woods Ashwell Springs Benington High Wood Blagrove Common Bricket Wood Common Croxley Common Moor Frogmore Meadows Great Hormead Park Hertford Heath Hunsdon Mead Knebworth Woods Moor Hall Meadows Northaw Great Wood Oddy Hill and Tring Park Patmore Heath Plashes Wood Redwell Wood Roughdown Common Rye Meads Sarratt Bottom Sawbridgeworth Marsh Sherrardspark Wood Tewinbury Therfield Heath Thorley Flood Pound Tring Reservoirs Tring Woodlands Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Wain Wood Water End Swallow Holes Whippendell Wood Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South

Geological	Castle Lime Works Quarry Downfield Pit, Westmill Hillcollins Pit Little Heath Pit Moor Mill Quarry, West Oughtonhead Lane Westwood Quarry

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs

East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead

Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Barkway Chalk Pit Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Hill End Pit Oughtonhead Pryor's Wood Purwell Ninesprings

St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes

Stevenage	Ridlins Mire

Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadow Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake

Watford	Cassiobury Park

Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood

Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade

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