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Bacombe Hill
 
LNR Type: Urban Fringe
County: Buckinghamshire
Natural England
Regional Team:
South East
Year of Declaration: 1996
Declaring Authority: Buckinghamshire County Council
Area (Ha): Click here to open the site map (new window). Once displayed, click on the site to see area and other details.
Grid Reference: SP 859 071
Location: Wendover/Ellesborough Road, Wendover, HP22 6EL
Owned by: Buckinghamshire County Council
Managed by: Buckinghamshire County Council
Link to site map: Click here to open the site map from the MAGIC web site.
How to get there: Take the Ellesborough road out of Wendover. Go over the bypass and a small parking area is on the left at the sharp right hand bend. Or walk from the National Trust car park at Coombe Hill.
Visitor facilities: Walks and rides (on bridleway)
Numerous footpaths cross the site, no sealed paths.
What to see: A valuable area of downland, scrub and woodland on the central Chilterns� escarpment. It has a mix of mature beech woodland, paricularly to the top and the south of the reserve, also with large aras of open chalk grassland. It is managed as a Local Nature Reserve and is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (for its chalk grassland). There are some rare chalk grassland flowers and butterflies. It is noted for orchids.
Volunteer and 'Friends of' groups: Volunteer opportunities on the wider Chilterns AONB see website www.chilternsaonb.org/about-chilterns/volunteering.html
Contacts for further information and how to get involved: Follow the attached link to send an e-mail enquiry www.chilternsaonb.org/conservation-board/contact-us.html

or write to or telephone

Chilterns Conservation Board
The Lodge
90 Station Road
Chinnor OX39 4HA

Telephone: 01844 355500
Website address and other links: www.chilternsaonb.org/ccbmaps/732/137/bacombe-hill-local-nature-reserve.html

Alternatively try: www.chilternsaonb.org and search for Bacombe Hill Local Nature Reserve.

Last Updated: 08/08/2013
 
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