Blow's Down
Part of the Chiltern Hills, Bedfordshire
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Blow's Down, also known as Blow's Downs or Blows Downs, is a chalk grassland nature reserve and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England. It forms part of the Chiltern Hills and lies close to the boundary between Dunstable and Luton, rising above the Luton Dunstable Busway.
The SSSI covers 33.1 hectares and was notified in 1989 under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and the local planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council. The wider Blow's Downs nature reserve is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, which lists the reserve as 77 hectares. It has a maximum elevation of 212 m.
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