Martin and Tidpit Downs
Martin and Tidpit Downs is a 367.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Martin Down is a 341-hectare national nature reserve and an area of 115 hectares is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Bokerley Dyke, a prehistoric linear earthwork and scheduled monument, runs through the site.- Type: Grassland
- Description: Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire
- Also known as: “Martin Down”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bokerley Dyke and Chickengrove Bottom.
Bokerley Dyke
Historic site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bokerley Dyke, Bokerly Dyke, Bokerley Ditch, is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres long on Cranborne Chase in Dorset, partially running along the county's border with Hampshire between Woodyates and Martin. Bokerley Dyke is situated 2,600 feet south of Martin and Tidpit Downs.
Chickengrove Bottom
Nature reserve
Chickengrove Bottom is a 9.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest to the south east of the village of Bowerchalke in Wiltshire, notified in 1975.
Church of St Rumbold
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Rumbold is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Martin and Tidpit Downs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodyates and Pentridge.
Woodyates
Hamlet
Photo: Paul Billington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodyates is a hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the civil parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England.
Pentridge
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pentridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England, lying in the north-east of the county.
Bowerchalke
Village
Photo: Chalkeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire. Bowerchalke is situated 2½ miles northwest of Martin and Tidpit Downs.
Martin and Tidpit Downs
Latitude
50.97678° or 50° 58′ 36″ northLongitude
-1.94212° or 1° 56′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C2WX3G5+P5OpenStreetMap ID
way 916603101OpenStreetMap feature
natural=grasslandWikidata ID
Q96392155
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Highlights include Martin Down Camp and Martin Down National Nature Reserve.
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