Win Green Down

Win Green
Wingreen Hill the highest point of Cranborne Chase an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Wiltshire, England
Highest point
Elevation	277 m (909 ft)
Coordinates	50°59′08″N 2°06′29″W / 50.9856°N 2.1081°W / 50.9856; -2.1081Coordinates: 50°59′08″N 2°06′29″W / 50.9856°N 2.1081°W / 50.9856; -2.1081
Geography
Win Green Win Green in Wiltshire
Location	Wiltshire, England
Parent range	North Wessex Downs
OS grid	ST927209
Topo map	OS Landranger 184

Win Green Down (277 metres (909 ft), grid reference ST927209) is a 26.0 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971. The summit, Win Green, is at grid ST924205 and is the highest point of Cranborne Chase. There are extensive views, with Bournemouth, the Isle of Wight, Salisbury, and Glastonbury Tor, the Mendips, the Quantocks and Milk Hill all visible in clear conditions. It is classed as a Marilyn, and is a well known landmark due to the clump of trees on the highpoint.

Sources

English Nature citation sheet for the site (accessed 8 August 2006)
http://www.ukhillwalking.com/logbook/hill.php?id=14024
Mapping: OS Explorer 118 (1:25 000), OS Landranger 184 (1:50 000)

External links

English Nature website (SSSI information)
http://www.ukhillwalking.com/logbook/hill.php?id=14024

Biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire

Acres Farm Meadow River Avon System Baverstock Juniper Bank Bencroft Hill Meadows Bentley Wood Bincknoll Dip Woods Blackmoor Copse Botley Down Bowerchalke Downs Box Mine Bracknell Croft Bradley Woods Bratton Downs Brickworth Down and Dean Hill Brimsdown Hill Britford Water Meadows Burcombe Down Burderop Wood Calstone and Cherhill Downs Camp Down Chilmark Quarries Chickengrove Bottom Chilton Foliat Meadows Clattinger Farm Clearbury Down Cley Hill Cloatley Manor Farm Meadows Clout's Wood Coate Water Cockey Down Colerne Park and Monk's Wood The Coombes, Hinton Parva Cotswold Water Park Cranborne Chase Dank's Down and Truckle Hill Distillery Farm Meadows East Harnham Meadows Ebsbury Down Emmett Hill Meadows Figsbury Ring Fonthill Grottoes Fyfield Down Gallows Hill Goldborough Farm Meadows Great Cheverell Hill Great Yews Gutch Common Ham Hill Hang Wood Harries Ground, Rodbourne Haydon Meadow Heath Hill Farm Homington and Coombe Bissett Downs Honeybrook Farm Inwood, Warleigh Jones's Mill River Kennet Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain King's Play Hill Knapp and Barnett's Downs Knighton Downs and Wood Landford Bog Landford Heath Langley Wood and Homan's Copse Little Grubbins Meadow Long Knoll Loosehanger Copse and Meadows Lower Coombe and Ferne Brook Meadows Lower Woodford Water Meadows Midford Valley Woods Morgan's Hill The New Forest North Meadow, Cricklade Odstock Down Out Woods Parsonage Down Pewsey Downs Picket and Clanger Wood Piggledene Pike Corner Pincombe Down Porton Down Porton Meadows Prescombe Down Rack Hill Ravensroost Wood Restrop Farm and Brockhurst Wood Rotherley Downs Roundway Down and Covert Salisbury Plain Savernake Forest Scratchbury & Cotley Hills Silbury Hill Spye Park Starveall and Stony Down Steeple Langford Down Stockton Wood and Down Stoke Common Meadows Stratford Toney Down Sutton Lane Meadows Throope Down River Till Tytherington Down Upper Waterhay Meadow Upton Cow Down West Yatton Down Whiteparish Common Whitesheet Hill Win Green Down Winklebury Hill Winsley Mines Wylye and Church Dean Downs Yarnbury Castle

Neighbouring areas Avon Berkshire Dorset Gloucestershire Hampshire Oxfordshire Somerset

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