Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex: Ashdown Forest, List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, High Rocks

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ashdown Forest, List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, High Rocks, Brighton to Newhaven Cliffs, Park Corner Heath, Weir Wood Reservoir, Lewes Brooks, Southerham Grey Pit, Heathfield Park, Arlington Reservoir, Ditchling Common, Lower Dicker, Blackhorse Quarry, River Line, Pevensey Levels, Hastingford Cutting, Rye Harbour SSSI, Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay, Northiam SSSI, Marline Valley Woods, Clayton to Offham Escarpment, Waldron Cutting, Buxted Park, Bingletts Wood, Ashburnham Park, Firle Escarpment, Wilmington Downs, Castle Hill, Brighton, Willingdon Down, Maplehurst Wood, Bream Wood, Folkington Reservoir, Plashett Park Wood, Combe Haven, Fore Wood, Offham Marshes, High Woods, Southerham Works Pit, Asham Quarry, Brede Pit and Cutting, Southerham Machine Bottom Pit, Dallington Forest, Burgh Hill Farm Meadow, Hemingfold Meadow, Eridge Park, Lullington Heath, Kingston Escarpment and Iford Hill, Lewes Downs, Winchelsea Cutting, Leasam Heronry Wood, St. Dunstan's Farm Meadows, Stockland Farm Meadows, Houghton Green Cliff, Willingford Meadows, Herstmonceux Park, Paines Cross Meadow, Sapperton Meadows, Milton Gate Marsh, Penn's Rocks, Eridge Green, Seaford to Beachy Head, Rock Wood, Darwell Wood, Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach. Excerpt: Ashdown Forest is an ancient area of tranquil open heathland occupying the highest sandy ridge-top of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is situated some 30 miles (48 km) south of London in the county of East Sussex, England. Rising to an altitude of 223 metres (732 ft) above sea level, its heights provide expansive vistas across the heavily wooded hills of the Weald to the chalk escarpments of the North Downs and South Downs on the horizon. Ashdown Forest's origins lie as a medieval hunting forest created soon after the Norman conquest of Eng...