Cooper's Hill, Bedfordshire

Cooper's Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Bedfordshire
Grid reference	TL028376
Interest	Biological
Area	18.1 hectares
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Cooper's Hill is an 18.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ampthill in Bedfordshire. It was notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in 1984, and the planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council.^[1]^[2] A smaller area of 12.7 hectares is also a Local Nature Reserve,^[3]^[4] Part of the site is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[5]

The site is described by Natural England as the best surviving example in Bedfordshire of heathland on the thin acidic soils of the Lower Greensand Ridge. It also has areas of marsh and woodland.^[1]

There is access from Alameda Road and Station Road.^[3]

References

1 2 "Cooper's Hill citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
↑ "Map of Cooper's Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
1 2 "Coopers Hill - Bedfordshire SSSI". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
↑ "Map of Coopers Hill - Bedfordshire SSSI". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
↑ "Cooper's Hill". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 24 August 2015.

External links

Wildlife Trust of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire website

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire

Biological	Barton Hills Blow's Down Cooper's Hill Deacon Hill Dropshort Marsh Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs Fancott Woods and Meadows Felmersham Gravel Pits Flitwick Moor Galley and Warden Hills Hanger Wood Houghton Regis Marl Lakes Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, Houghton Conquest Knocking Hoe Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow Maulden Heath Maulden Wood and Pennyfather's Hill Nares Gladley Marsh Odell Great Wood Potton Wood Pulloxhill Marsh Sandy Warren Smithcombe, Sharpenhoe and Sundon Hills Southill Lake and Woods Stevington Marsh Sundon Chalk Quarry Swineshead Wood Tebworth Marsh Tilwick Meadow Totternhoe Chalk Quarry Totternhoe Knolls Wavendon Heath Ponds Yelden Meadows

Geological	Biddenham Pit Double Arches Pit Kensworth Chalk Pit Nine Acres Pit Totternhoe Stone Pit

Local Nature Reserves in Bedfordshire

Bedford	Bromham Lake Browns Wood Fenlake Meadows Harrold-Odell Country Park Hill Rise Mowsbury Hill Park Wood Putnoe Wood

Central Bedfordshire	Cooper's Hill Cottage Bottom Fields Flitton Moor Flitwick Wood Henlow Common and Langford Meadows Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow The Riddy Stotfold Mill Meadows Totternhoe Knolls

Luton	Galley and Warden Hills

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