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Ashford Hill Woods and Meadows
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Area of Search Hampshire
Interest Biological
Area 141.5 hectares (350 acres)
Notification 1986
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Ashford Hill Woods and Meadows is a 141.5-hectare (350-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Ashford Hill in Hampshire. An area of 23.45 hectares (57.9 acres) is Ashford Hill NNR, which is a National Nature Reserve.

This biologically rich site is a valley on London Clay and Lower Bagshot Beds. It has varied woodlands and agriculturally unimproved meadows. The diverse invertebrate fauna includes 31 species of butterflies and more than 400 species of moth, including the uncommon orange moth and pale oak eggar.

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