Chailey Common
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Chailey Common is a 169 hectare (417.4 acre) biological site of Special Scientific Interest
in the East Sussex
. It is close to the village of North Chailey to the west of Newick
. The site was notified in 1985 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
and is part of a Local Nature Reserve
.
The site consists of various heath
communities which themselves support important invertebrate and bird species, including various butterflies which are rare in the county.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
in the East Sussex
East Sussex
East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel.-History:...
. It is close to the village of North Chailey to the west of Newick
Newick
Newick is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located on the A272 road six miles east of Haywards Heath....
. The site was notified in 1985 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom and was implemented to comply with the Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds...
and is part of a Local Nature Reserve
Local Nature Reserve
Local nature reserve or LNR is a designation for nature reserves in the United Kingdom. The designation has its origin in the recommendations of the Wild Life Conservation Special Committee which established the framework for nature conservation in the United Kingdom and suggested a national suite...
.
The site consists of various heath
Heath (habitat)
A heath or heathland is a dwarf-shrub habitat found on mainly low quality acidic soils, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. There are some clear differences between heath and moorland...
communities which themselves support important invertebrate and bird species, including various butterflies which are rare in the county.
See also
- Garth ChristianGarth ChristianGarth Christian was an English nature writer, editor, teacher and conservationist.- Life :He was born in a Derbyshire vicarage which had been occupied by his father and grandfather for almost 50 years, and was a member of the same family as Fletcher Christian...
, former conservator - List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex