The Mens
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | West Sussex |
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Grid reference | TQ 024 236[1] |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 205.2 hectares (507 acres)[1] |
Notification | 1986[1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
The Mens is a 205.2-hectare (507-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Billingshurst in West Sussex.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I[3] and a Special Area of Conservation.[4] An area of 166 hectares (410 acres) south of the A272 road is managed as a nature reserve by the Sussex Wildlife Trust.[5]
This large area of woodland has diverse breeding birds and rich lichen and fungal floras. There are many rare beetles and a fly which is endangered with extinction, Chelostoma curvinervis. All three British species of woodpecker breed on the site, together with other woodland species such as nightingales, woodcocks and wood warblers.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: The Mens". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ "Map of The Mens". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 48–49. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: The Mens". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ "The Mens". Sussex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ "The Mens citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
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- Amberley Wild Brooks
- Ambersham Common
- Arun Banks
- Arundel Park
- Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill
- Bognor Reef
- Bracklesham Bay
- Buchan Hill Ponds
- Burton Park
- Chanctonbury Hill
- Chapel Common
- Chichester Harbour
- Chiddingfold Forest
- Cissbury Ring
- Clayton to Offham Escarpment
- Climping Beach
- Coates Castle
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- Heyshott Down
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- Mills Rocks
- Northpark Copse to Snapelands Copse
- Pads Wood
- Pagham Harbour
- Parham Park
- Pulborough Brooks
- Rake Hanger
- Rook Clift
- Shillinglee Lake
- Singleton and Cocking Tunnels
- St Leonard's Forest
- St Leonard's Park Ponds
- Sullington Warren
- Treyford to Bepton Down
- Upper Arun
- Wakehurst and Chiddingly Woods
- Waltham Brooks
- West Dean Woods
- West Harting Down
- Wolstonbury Hill
- Woolbeding and Pound Commons
- Woolmer Forest
- Worth Forest
- Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill
- Bognor Common Quarry
- Bognor Reef
- Bracklesham Bay
- Chantry Mill
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- Coppedhall Hanger
- Eartham Pit, Boxgrove
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- Pagham Harbour
- Park Farm Cutting
- Perry Copse Outcrop
- Philpot's and Hook Quarries
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- Slinfold Stream and Quarry
- Stone Hill Rocks
- Turners Hill
- Wakehurst and Chiddingly Woods
- Warnham
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