Aldbury Nowers

Aldbury Nowers
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Hertfordshire
Grid reference	SP952135
Interest	Biological
Area	19.7 hectares
Notification	1990
Location map	Magic Map

Aldbury Nowers is a 19.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) north-east of Tring in Hertfordshire. The site was notified in 1990 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.^[1]^[2] It is managed by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. The site, formerly known as "Duchie's Piece," comprises two areas of hillside, linked by The Ridgeway. The site hosts the flowers of chalk grassland and has butterfly habitats with several different species of butterfly including the Duke of Burgundy, hairstreaks and the Essex skipper. There are also large ares of woodland and calcareous grassland.^[1]^[3]

Northwest of the village of Aldbury, it adjoins the Pitstone Hill SSSI in Buckinghamshire and provides views over the Tring Gap and Vale of Aylesbury.^[1]^[3]

The site is always open and there is access by a footpath from Northfield Road.^[3]

References

1 2 3 "Aldbury Nowers" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 21 February 2006.
↑ "Map of Aldbury Nowers". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
1 2 3 "Aldbury Nowers". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 2011-01-07.

Biological

Geological

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs
East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead
Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir
North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings
St Albans	Broad Colney Lakes
Stevenage	Ridlins Mire
Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadows Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake
Watford	Cassiobury Park
Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood
Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade
Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill

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