Catherington Down

Catherington Down HCC Sign

Catherington Down View

Catherington Down is a hill, or down, in Hampshire, England. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest^[1]^[2] and a Local Nature Reserve.^[3]^[4]

It rises fairly steeply on its eastern flank. It is managed by Hampshire County Council and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.

It is a chalk based grassland similar to the South Downs and is an example of early strip cultivation.

The area is popular with local dog walkers and has a number of footpaths across it.

Catherington Down is accessible via Catherington village via Parsons Field or off Catherington Lane.

References

↑ "Catherington Down citation". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England.
↑ "Catherington Down Map". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England.
↑ "Catherington Down, Horndean". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.
↑ "Map of Catherington Down". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire

Basingstoke Canal Beacon Hill, Warnford Blackwater Valley Boulsbury Wood Bourley and Long Valley Burghclere Beacon Butser Hill Catherington Down Cheesefoot Head Chichester Harbour Dibden Bay Ebblake Bog Fleet Pond Foxlease And Ancells Meadows Galley Down Wood Greywell Tunnel Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary Itchen Navigation Ladle Hill Langstone Harbour Lymington River Lymington River Reedbeds Mottisfont Bats New Forest Noar Hill Old Burghclere Lime Quarry Old Winchester Hill Pamber Forest and Silchester Common Portsmouth Harbour River Avon System River Itchen River Test Selborne Common Southampton Common Sowley Pond St. Catherine's Hill Trodds Copse Woolmer Forest

Neighbouring areas Berkshire Dorset Isle of Wight Surrey West Sussex Wiltshire

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