Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve
Protected area in the UK
About
Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve is located on the north-west escarpment of the Chiltern Hills, in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It has an area of 159.1 hectares (393 acres), and most of it is a 128.5 hectares (318 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is listed as a Grade 1 site in A Nature Conservation Review. The reserve is in several sections, mostly in the parish of Lewknor in Oxfordshire, with smaller sections in the parish of Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire.
The reserve is home to plants and butterflies of chalk grassland. The flowers include at least seven species of orchid and the Chiltern gentian; the butterflies include the silver-spotted skipper and the Adonis blue.
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Chiltern Hills
Range of hills in south-east England
1.4 mi away
Cowleaze Wood
Woodland in the Chiltern Hills of South East England
0.7 mi away
Stokenchurch BT Tower
Telecommunications tower in Buckinghamshire, England
1.1 mi away
Shirburn Hill
Hill in Oxfordshire
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