Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens

Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens
Site of Special Scientific Interest
View across Great Kimble Warren
Area of Search	Buckinghamshire
Grid reference	SP831058
Interest	Biological
Area	68.9 hectares
Notification	1984
Location map	Magic Map

Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens is a 68.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ellesborough in Buckinghamshire. The local planning authority is Wycombe District Council. It is part of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.^[1]^[2]

The site contains three deep valleys, called Ellesborough Warren and Great and Little Kimble Warrens. It is one of the most important sites in the Chilterns for natural box woodlands, and it also has grasslands with rare plant species. There is a wide range of invertebrates and breeding birds.^[1]^[3]

A warren is an area set aside in medieval times for the breeding of rabbits or hares. On Beacon Hill, in the north-east of the site, there is a well-preserved pillow mound, a purpose-built breeding place, and this is a scheduled monument.^[4]

References

1 2 "Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
↑ "Map of Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
↑ "Lottery grant to conserve rare woodland". Chilterns Conservation Board. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
↑ "Pillow mound on Beacon Hill, 550m south of Ellesborough church. List entry Number: 101394". English Heritage. Retrieved 6 January 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Buckinghamshire

Biological	Ashridge Commons and Woods Aston Clinton Ragpits Aston Rowant Aston Rowant Woods Bacombe and Coombe Hills Black Park Bradenham Woods, Park Wood and The Coppice Burnham Beeches Buttlers Hangings Dancersend Dancersend Waterworks Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens Fayland Chalk Bank Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir and Wood Frieth Meadows Frogmore Meadows Gomm Valley Grangelands and Pulpit Hill Grendon and Doddershall Woods Ham Home-cum-Hamgreen Woods Hodgemoor Wood Hollowhill and Pullingshill Woods Homefield Wood Howe Park Wood Ivinghoe Hills Kingcup Meadows and Oldhouse Wood Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Littleworth Common Lodge Hill Long Herdon Meadow Mid Colne Valley Millfield Wood Moorend Common Naphill Common Old Rectory Meadows Oxley Mead Pilch Fields Pitstone Hill Poker's Pond Meadow Rodbed Wood Rushbeds Wood and Railway Cutting Shabbington Woods Complex Sheephouse Wood Stoke Common Swain's Wood Temple Island Meadows Tingewick Meadows Tring Reservoirs Turville Hill Weston Turville Reservoir Widdenton Park Wood Windsor Hill Wormsley Chalk Banks Yardley Chase

Geological	Bierton Clay Pit Bolter End Sand Pit Bugle Quarry Fern House Gravel Pit Froghall Brickworks Muswell Hill Pitstone Quarry South Lodge Pit Stone Warren Farm, Stewkley

Coordinates: 51°44′41″N 0°47′52″W / 51.7447°N 0.7978°W / 51.7447; -0.7978

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Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens

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