List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Oxfordshire
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The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Oxfordshire
. For other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search.
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
. For other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search.
- Alvescot Meadows
- Appleton Lower Common
- Ardley Cutting And Quarry
- Arncott Bridge Meadows
- Ashdown Park Ashdown House, OxfordshireAshdown House is a 17th century country house in the civil parish of Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire. Until 1974 the house was in the county of Berkshire, and the nearby village of Lambourn remains in that county....
- Aston RowantAston Rowant NNRAston Rowant Nature Reserve is located on the western escarpment of the Chiltern Hills near Stokenchurch on the Oxfordshire - Buckinghamshire border in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty The reserve is in several sections, divided by the M40 motorway in the Aston Rowant Cutting...
- Aston Rowant Cutting
- Aston Upthorpe Downs
- Barrow Farm Fen
- Bear, Oveys And Great Bottom Woods
- Berins Hill Bank
- Berrick Trench
- Bestmoor
- Bix Bottom
- Blenheim Park
- Bould Wood
- Brasenose Wood And Shotover HillShotoverShotover is a hill and forest in Oxfordshire, England.Shotover Hill is east of Oxford. Its highest point is above sea level.-Early history:The toponym may be derived from the Old English scoet ofer, meaning "steep slope"...
- Buckland Warren
- Cassington Meadows
- Chimney Meadows
- Chinnor Chalk Pit
- Chinnor Hill
- Cothill Fen
- Culham Brake
- Cumnor
- Ditchley Road Quarry
- Dry Sandford Pit
- Ducklington MeadDucklingtonDucklington is a village and civil parish on the River Windrush south of Witney in West Oxfordshire.-History:Ducklington is one of the first Saxon parishes to be recorded in Oxfordshire. In a charter of AD 958 King Edgar the Peaceable granted at Ducklington to his Minister, Eanulf...
- Fernham Meadows
- Frilford Heath, Ponds And Fens
- Glyme Valley
- Grafton Lock Meadow Grafton LockGrafton Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England on the northern bank between Kelmscott and Radcot Oxfordshire. The lock was built by the Thames Conservancy in 1896.The weir is on the other side of the lock island at the upstream end....
- Hackpen, Warren & Gramp's Hill Downs
- Harpsden Wood
- Hartslock HartslockHartslock Nature Reserve is an 11-acre section of the much larger Hartslock SSSI near Goring-on-Thames, south Oxfordshire, England...
- Highlands Farm Pit
- Holly Court Bank
- Holly WOod
- Holton Wood
- Hook Meadow And The Trap Grounds
- Hook Norton Cutting & Banks
- Horsehay Quarries
- Hurst Hill Cumnor HurstCumnor Hurst, also known as Hurst Hill, is a wooded hill in the neighbourhood of the village of Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England. It lies to the north of Boars Hill. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire....
- Iffley Meadows
- Kirtlington Quarry
- Knightsbridge Lane
- Lamb And Flag Quarry
- Lambridge Wood
- Langley's Lane Meadow
- Little Tew Meadows
- Little Wittenham
- Littlemore Railway Cutting
- Littleworth Brick Pit
- Long Hanborough Gravel Pit
- Lye Valley Lye ValleyThe Lye Valley Nature Reserve is a 4.5 hectare site east of the Churchill Hospital in Headington, Oxford, managed by Oxford City Council. It covers the northern part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest designated in 1987...
- Lyehill Quarry
- Magdalen Grove
- Magdalen Quarry
- Middle Barton Fen
- Moulsford Downs
- Murcott Meadows
- Neithrop Fields Cutting
- New Marston Meadows
- Otmoor OtmoorOtmoor or Ot Moor is an area of wetland and wet grassland in Oxfordshire, England, located halfway between Oxford and Bicester. It is about above sea level, and has an area of approximately ....
- Out Wood
- Pishill Woods
- Pixey And Yarnton Meads
- Port Meadow With Wolvercote Common & Green
- Priest's Hill
- Red Hill
- Rock Edge
- Rushy Meadows
- Salt Way, Ditchley
- Sarsgrove Wood
- Sharp's Hill Quarry
- Sheep's Banks
- Shellingford Crossroads Quarry
- Shipton-on-cherwell & Whitehill Farm Quarries
- Shirburn Hill
- Sidling's Copse And College Pond
- Spartum Fen
- Stanton Great Wood
- Stanton Harcourt Stanton HarcourtStanton Harcourt is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about southeast of Witney and west of Oxford.-Archaeology:Within the parish of Stanton Harcourt is a series of paleochannel deposits buried beneath the second gravel terrace of the river Thames...
- Stonesfield Common, Bottoms & Banks
- Stonesfield Slate Mines
- Stratton Audley Quarries
- Sturt Copse
- Sugworth
- Swyncombe Downs
- Taynton Quarries
- Tuckmill Meadows
- Warren Bank
- Waterperry Wood
- Watlington And Pyrton Hills
- Wendlebury Meads And Mansmoor Closes
- Weston Fen
- Westwell Gorse
- Whitecross Green And Oriel Woods
- Whitehill Wood
- White Horse Hill
- Wicklesham And Coxwell Pits
- Wolvercote Meadows
- Woodeaton Quarry
- Woodeaton Wood
- Worsham Lane
- Wychwood WychwoodThe Wychwood, or Wychwood Forest, is an area now covering a small part of rural Oxfordshire. In past centuries the forest covered a much larger area, since cleared in favour of agriculture, villages and towns. However, the forest's area has fluctuated...
- Wytham Ditches And Flushes
- Wytham Woods