Ashburnham Park
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Ashburnham Park is a 100.7 hectares (248.8 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
in East Sussex
, England
. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
. Ashburnham is a former medieval deer park which lies on Tunbridge Wells Sandstone and Wadhurst Clay. The site is home to woodland area, Scots Pine
, ground flora
and Dryopteris aemula, among other species.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
in East Sussex
East Sussex
East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel.-History:...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom and was implemented to comply with the Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds...
. Ashburnham is a former medieval deer park which lies on Tunbridge Wells Sandstone and Wadhurst Clay. The site is home to woodland area, Scots Pine
Scots Pine
Pinus sylvestris, commonly known as the Scots Pine, is a species of pine native to Europe and Asia, ranging from Scotland, Ireland and Portugal in the west, east to eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia...
, ground flora
Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...
and Dryopteris aemula, among other species.