List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire

Silbury Hill, one of the many SSSIs in Wiltshire designated for their grassland plant communities.

The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire. For other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search.

As of 2006, there are 134 sites designated in this Area of Search, of which the vast majority, 109, have been designated due to their biological interest, with just 20 due to their geological interest (and 5 for both).

Note on sourcing of information

The list was sourced from English Nature's website [1], accessed on 7 July 2006; the data comes from the SSSI citation sheets, also available at EN's website. The articles for each SSSI linked below include details of these citation sheets in their sources lists.

All SSSI areas have been rounded to one decimal place.

A - B

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area[A]		Grid reference[B]	Year in which notified	Map[C]
	Biological Interest	Geological Interest	Hectares	Acres
Acres Farm Meadow	Y		4.2		SU024927	1989
Baverstock Juniper Bank	Y		2.6		SU035336	1971
Bencroft Hill Meadows	Y		5.1		SU852732	1988
Bentley Wood	Y		665.0		SU250295	1985
Bincknoll Dip Woods	Y		5.7		SU111796	1971
Blackmoor Copse	Y
Botley Down	Y
Bowerchalke Downs	Y		128.6		SU004218	1971
Box Mine	Y		56.6		ST838690	1991
Bracknell Croft	Y
Bradley Woods	Y
Bratton Downs	Y	Y	395.8		ST925522	1971
Brickworth Down and Dean Hill	Y
Brimsdown Hill	Y		193.7		SU831385	1951
Britford Water Meadows	Y
Burcombe Down	Y
Burderop Wood	Y

C - D

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area[A]		Grid reference[B]	Year in which notified	Map[C]
	Biological Interest	Geological Interest	Hectares	Acres
Calstone and Cherhill Downs	Y		128.6		SU047692	1971
Camp Down	Y
Charnage Down Chalk Pit		Y	3.7		ST837329	1971
Chickengrove Bottom	Y
Chilmark Quarries	Y	Y	9.7		ST974312	1977
Chilton Foliat Meadows	Y
Clattinger Farm	Y
Clearbury Down	Y
Cley Hill	Y
Cloatley Manor Farm Meadows	Y
Clout's Wood	Y
Coate Water	Y
Cockey Down	Y
Colerne Park and Monk's Wood	Y
The Coombs, Hinton Parva	Y
Corsham Railway Cutting		Y	6.6		ST862695	1971
Cotswold Water Park	Y
Cranborne Chase	Y		451.4		ST970180	1975
Dank's Down and Truckle Hill	Y
Dead Maid Quarry		Y	0.4		ST803324	1951
Dinton Quarry		Y	0.3		SU006308	1990
Dinton Railway Cutting		Y	0.3		SU008309	1990
Distillery Farm Meadows	Y

E - H

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area[A]		Grid reference[B]	Year in which notified	Map[C]
	Biological Interest	Geological Interest	Hectares	Acres
East Harnham Meadows	Y
Ebsbury Down	Y
Emmett Hill Meadows	Y
Figsbury Ring	Y
Fonthill Grottoes	Y		0.7	ST935315	1994
Fyfield Down	Y	Y
Gallows Hill	Y
Goldborough Farm Meadows	Y
Great Cheverell Hill	Y
Great Quarry, Swindon		Y	1.0	SU151836	1951
Great Yews	Y
Gripwood Quarry		Y	2.9	ST822603	1951
Gutch Common	Y
Ham Hill	Y
Hang Wood	Y
Harries Ground, Rodbourne	Y
Haydon Meadow	Y
Heath Hill Farm	Y
Homington and Coombe Bissett Downs	Y
Honeybrook Farm	Y

I - N

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area[A]		Grid reference[B]	Year in which notified	Map[C]
	Biological Interest	Geological Interest	Hectares	Acres
Inwood, Warleigh	Y
Jones's Mill	Y
Kellaways - West Tytherton, River Avon		Y	4.1	ST945750	1998
Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain	Y
King's Play Hill	Y
Knapp and Barnett's Downs	Y
Knighton Downs and Wood	Y
Lady Down Quarry		Y	0.2	ST961307	1990
Landford Bog	Y
Landford Heath	Y
Langley Wood and Homan's Copse	Y
Little Grubbins Meadow	Y
Long Knoll	Y
Loosehanger Copse and Meadows	Y
Lower Coombe and Ferne Brook Meadows	Y
Lower Woodford Water Meadows	Y
Midford Valley Woods	Y
Morgan's Hill	Y
The New Forest	Y	Y	28947.4	SU298081	1959
North Meadow, Cricklade	Y

O - R

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area[A]		Grid reference[B]	Year in which notified	Map[C]
	Biological Interest	Geological Interest	Hectares	Acres
Odstock Down	Y
Okus Quarry		Y	0.3	SU147836	1951
Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon		Y	1.8	SU153832	1975
Out Woods	Y
Parsonage Down	Y
Pewsey Downs	Y
Picket and Clanger Wood	Y
Piggledene	Y	Y
Pike Corner	Y
Pincombe Down	Y
Porton Down	Y
Porton Meadows	Y
Prescombe Down	Y
Rack Hill	Y
Ravensroost Wood	Y
Restrop Farm and Brockhurst Wood	Y
River Avon System	Y
River Kennet	Y
River Till	Y
Rotherley Downs	Y
Roundway Down and Covert	Y

S

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area[A]		Grid reference[B]	Year in which notified	Map[C]
	Biological Interest	Geological Interest	Hectares	Acres
Salisbury Plain	Y		19689.9	SU070500	1975
Savernake Forest	Y		904.7	SU215665	1971
Scratchbury and Cotley Hills	Y		53.5	ST915437	1951
Seend Cleeve Quarry		Y	3.0	ST933609	1987
Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting		Y	1.2	ST937610	1965
Silbury Hill	Y
Spye Park	Y
Stanton St. Quintin Quarry and Motorway Cutting	Y		2.2	ST918796	1971
Starveall and Stony Down	Y
Steeple Ashton		Y	26.5	ST914558	1998
Steeple Langford Down	Y
Stert Brook Exposure		Y	0.4	SU017583	1989
Stockton Wood and Down	Y
Stoke Common Meadows	Y
Stratford Toney Down	Y
Sutton Lane Meadows	Y

T - Z

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area[A]		Grid reference[B]	Year in which notified	Map[C]
	Biological Interest	Geological Interest	Hectares	Acres
Teffont Evias Quarry / Lane Cutting		Y	3.6	ST990310	1989
Throope Down	Y
Tytherington Down	Y
Upper Chicksgrove Quarry		Y	5.6	ST962296	1971
Upper Waterhay Meadow	Y
Upton Cow Down	Y
West Harnham Chalk Pit		Y	2.8	SU128287	1971
West Yatton Down	Y
Westbury Ironstone Quarry		Y	0.6	SU853508	1965
Whiteparish Common	Y
Whitesheet Hill	Y
Win Green Down	Y
Winklebury Hill	Y
Winsley Mines	Y		1.5	ST795607	1989
Wootton Bassett Mud Spring		Y	0.8	SU078815	1997
Wylye and Church Dean Downs	Y
Yarnbury Castle	Y