Pitstone Hill
Hill in England
title: "Pitstone Hill" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["sites-of-special-scientific-interest-in-buckinghamshire", "pitstone"] description: "Hill in England" topic_path: "technology/web" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitstone_Hill" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Hill in England ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| image | Ridgeway on Pitstone Hill - geograph.org.uk - 575690.jpg |
| name | Pitstone Hill |
| aos | Buckinghamshire |
| interest | Biological |
| gridref | |
| area | 22.9 hectares |
| notifydate | 1984 |
| map | Magic Map |
| :: |
|image= Ridgeway on Pitstone Hill - geograph.org.uk - 575690.jpg |name= Pitstone Hill |aos= Buckinghamshire |interest= Biological |gridref= |area= 22.9 hectares |notifydate=1984 |map=Magic Map Pitstone Hill is a 22.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Importance east of Pitstone in Buckinghamshire. It is in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and is crossed by the Ridgeway National Trail.
The site is chalk grassland on a steeply sloping hill, with small areas of woodland and scrub. The richest areas botanically are the lower and steeper slopes, with plants including the nationally scarce pasque flower and field fleawort. Twenty-six species of butterfly have been recorded, and breeding birds include skylarks, meadow pipits and willow warblers.
There is access from Stocks Road.
References
References
- "Pitstone Hill citation". Natural England.
- "Map of Pitstone Hill". Natural England.
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