Galley Down Wood

Batches of the woodland surrounding green field.

Galley Down Wood (grid reference SU572190) is a 16.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire, notified in 1988.

The wood is a beech plantation on a chalk scarp slope and plateau. The plantation dates from the mid-twentieth century, and although originally under-planted with larch, this has now mostly been removed.

Although the ground flora largely consists of ivy (Hedera helix) and sanicle (Sanicula europaea), there are several other species present, including three scarce orchids: bird's-nest orchid (Neottia nidus-avis), white helleborine (Cephalanthera damasonium), fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera), greater butterfly orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) and sword-leaved helleborine (Cephalanthera longifolia).

Sources

Natural England citation sheet for the site (accessed 27 May 2007)

External links

Natural England website (SSSI information)

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire

Basingstoke Canal Beacon Hill, Warnford Blackwater Valley Boulsbury Wood Bourley and Long Valley Burghclere Beacon Butser Hill Catherington Down Cheesefoot Head Chichester Harbour Dibden Bay Ebblake Bog Fleet Pond Foxlease And Ancells Meadows Galley Down Wood Greywell Tunnel Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary Itchen Navigation Ladle Hill Langstone Harbour Lymington River Lymington River Reedbeds Mottisfont Bats New Forest Noar Hill Old Burghclere Lime Quarry Old Winchester Hill Pamber Forest and Silchester Common Portsmouth Harbour River Avon System River Itchen River Test Selborne Common Southampton Common Sowley Pond St. Catherine's Hill Trodds Copse Woolmer Forest

Neighbouring areas Berkshire Dorset Isle of Wight Surrey West Sussex Wiltshire

Coordinates: 50°58′03″N 1°11′12″W / 50.96759°N 1.18679°W / 50.96759; -1.18679

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Galley Down Wood

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