Chalbury Hill And Quarry

Chalbury Hill And Quarry (grid reference SY694838) is an 11.9 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, England, notified in 1977. The site consists of grassland (10.3 hectare) and a disused limestone quarry (1.6 hectare). The SSSI includes the area covered by Chalbury Hill Fort.

References

English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 31 August 2006)

External links

English Nature website (SSSI information)

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset

Abbotsbury Blind Lane Abbotsbury Castle Aunt Mary's Bottom River Axe Babylon Hill Batcombe Down Belle Vue Quarry Bere Stream Black Hill Down Black Hill Heath Blashenwell Farm Pit Blandford Camp Blue Pool Boulsbury Wood Bradford Abbas Railway Cutting Brenscombe Heath Bryanston Canford Heath Chalbury Hill And Quarry Chesil Beach Christchurch Harbour Conegar Road Cutting Corfe & Barrow Hills Corton Cutting Creech Grange Crookhill Brick Pit Cull-Peppers Dish Ebblake Bog Frogden Quarry River Frome, Dorset Giant Hill, Cerne Abbas Goathill Quarry Holnest Lambert's Castle Lions Hill Lodmoor Oakers Bog Pitcombe Down Poole Harbour Portland Poxwell Radipole Lake St Catherine's Hill Shillingstone Quarry Worgret Heath

Neighbouring areas Devon Hampshire Somerset Wiltshire

Coordinates: 50°39′11″N 2°26′03″W / 50.65307°N 2.43422°W / 50.65307; -2.43422

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