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Hackhurst and White Downs
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Hackhurst Downs
Location	Surrey
Grid reference	TQ 117 491^[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	185.1 hectares (457 acres)^[1]
Notification	1986^[1]
Location map	Magic Map

Hackhurst and White Downs is a 185.1-hectare (457-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Dorking in Surrey.^[1]^[2] White Downs is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2,^[3] and part of it is in the 200-hectare (490-acre) White Downs nature reserve, which is owned by the Wotton Estate and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT).^[4] Hackhurst Downs is a 29.9-hectare (74-acre) Local Nature Reserve,^[5]^[6] which part of the 40-hectare (99-acre) Hackhurst Downs nature reserve, which is owned by Surrey County Council and also managed by the SWT.^[7]

This steeply sloping land is a shared escarpment with Ranmore Common, amounting to an almost whole section of the North Downs, which has grassland, secondary woodland and scrub. It has a rich invertebrate fauna with forty species of butterfly, including adonis blue, chalkhill blue, brown hairstreak, Duke of Burgundy fritillary, marbled white and silver-spotted skipper.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Designated Sites View: Hackhurst and White Downs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
^ "Map of Hackhurst and White Downs". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 118–19. ISBN 0521 21403 3.
^ "White Downs". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
^ "Hackhurst Downs". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
^ "Map of Hackhurst Downs". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
^ "Hackhurst Downs". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
^ "Hackhurst and White Downs citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 November 2018.

Local Nature Reserves in Surrey
Elmbridge	Claygate Common Esher Common Molesey Heath Stokes Field West End Common
Epsom and Ewell	Epsom Common Hogsmill Horton Country Park
Guildford	Chinthurst Hill Fox Corner Wildlife Area Hackhurst Downs Lakeside Park Ockham and Wisley Pewley Down Riverside Park Sheepleas Shere Woodlands Snaky Lane Community Wildlife Area Whitmoor and Rickford Commons
Mole Valley	Ashtead Park Edolph's Copse Inholms Clay Pit River Mole
Reigate and Banstead	Earlswood Common Reigate Heath
Runnymede	Chertsey Meads Riverside Walk, Virginia Water
Surrey Heath	Bisley and West End Commons Brentmoor Heath
Tandridge	Blanchman's Farm Blindley Heath Centenary Fields Hill Park, Tatsfield Lingfield Wildlife Area Nore Hill Pinnacle Staffhurst Wood, Lingfield
Waverley	Farnham Park The Flashes Rodborough Common Rowhill Copse Sayer's Croft Weybourne
Woking	Mayford Meadows White Rose Lane

Surrey Wildlife Trust
Croydon	Dollypers Hill
Epsom and Ewell	Howell Hill Priest Hill
Guildford	Ash Ranges Broadstreet, Backside and Rydes Commons Burner's Heath and Swallows Pond Chinthurst Hill Chitty's Common Colekitchen Down The Forest and the Highlands Hackhurst Downs Littlefield Common Middlebriars Wood Newlands Corner Papercourt Marshes Pucks Oak Barn and McAlmont Reserves Puttenham Common Sheepleas Shere Woodlands St Martha's Hill and Colyer's Hanger Stringer's Common Whitmoor and Rickford Commons Wisley and Ockham Commons and Chatley Heath
Mole Valley	Ashtead Park Betchworth Quarry and Lime Kilns Brockham Limeworks Deepdene Terrace Fraser Down Glory Wood and Devil's Den Milton Heath and The Nower Newdigate Brickworks Norbury Park Nower Wood Vann Lake and Candy's Copse Wallis Wood White Downs Wotton and Abinger Commons
Reigate and Banstead	Dawcombe Fames Rough Nutfield Marshes Shabden Park
Runnymede	Thorpe Hay Meadow
Surrey Heath	Barossa Bisley and West End Commons and Reidon Hill Brentmoor Heath and Folly Bog Chobham Common Gracious Pond Milford Green and Coxhill Green Poors Allotment
Tandridge	Bay Pond Blindley Heath Graeme Hendrey Wood Hedgecourt Hill Park Kitchen Copse Ledgers Wood Quarry Hangers Staffhurst Wood Tilburstow Hill
Waverley	Crooksbury Hill Cucknell's Wood Elstead Group of Commons Rodborough Common Runfold Wood Seale Chalk Pit and Meadow Thundry Meadows Underdown
Woking	Brookwood Lye Manor Farm

Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
North Downs	Botley Hill Box Hill Colley Hill Combe Bottom Gatton Park Hackhurst and White Downs Hog's Back Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment Newlands Corner Norbury Park Ranmore Common Seale Chalk Pit Woldingham and Oxted Downs
Greensand Ridge	Albury Heath Blackheath Common Colyers Hanger Devil's Jumps Devil's Punch Bowl Frensham Common Gibbet Hill Gong Hill Hankley Common Hankley Farm Holmbury Hill Leith Hill Moor Park Oxmoor Copse Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons St Martha's Hill Stockstone Quarry Thursley Common Winterfold Forest Witley Common Wotton Common
Low Weald	Brook Brick Pit Chiddingfold Forest Netherside Stream Outcrops
Rivers	Law Brook Mole Ock Pipp Brook Tillingbourne Wey
Lakes and ponds	Busbridge Lakes Frensham Ponds Silent Pool
Long-distance paths	Downs Link Greensand Way Mole Gap Trail North Downs Way Thames Down Link Vanguard Way Wey South Path
National Cycle Routes	NCR21 NCR22