Galley and Warden Hills

Galley and Warden Hills
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Cows on Warden Hill
Area of Search	Bedfordshire
Grid reference	TL092265
Interest	Biological
Area	47.0 hectares
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Galley and Warden Hills is a 47 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Warden Hills, a suburb of Luton in Bedfordshire. The local planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council, and it was notified in 1986 under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.^[1]^[2] It is also a Local Nature Reserve.^[3]^[4]

The site is chalk grassland with areas of dense scrub, and it has many plants which are rare nationally and locally.^[1] It has a wide variety of wild flowers and more than twenty species of butterflies. Near the top of Galley Hill there are two Bronze Age barrows, one of which was used for public executions in the Middle Ages.^[3]

The Icknield Way Path passes through the hills on its 110 mile journey from Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Suffolk. The Icknield Way Trail, a multi-user route for walkers, horse riders and off-road cyclists also passes through the hills.

There is access from Warden Hill Road.^[3]

References

1 2 "Galley and Warden Hills citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
↑ "Map of Galley and Warden Hills". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
1 2 3 "Galley and Warden Hills SSSI". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
↑ "Map of Galley and Warden Hills SSSI". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

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

Coordinates: 51°55′41″N 0°24′54″W / 51.928°N 0.415°W / 51.928; -0.415

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