# Ashford Hill NNR

Ashford Hill is a British national nature reserve next to the village of Ashford Hill in Hampshire. Part of the reserve is a designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The site is one of Natural Englands nature reserves

## Geography

The reserve is 23 hectares (57 acres), of which 20.36 hectares (50.3 acres) is SSSI. The area of the national nature reserve which is a SSSI is part of the much bigger SSSI of Ashford Hill Woods and Meadows which is 142.1 hectares (351 acres) in size.
The reserve is a series of low-lying meadows in the valley of a small stream and also features woodland areas. The meadows area mix of London Clay and Bagshot beds.
The stream is called Baughurst Brook and eventually drains into the River Enborne.

## History

The wooded areas are believed to be part of the medieval royal forest of Pamber.

## Fauna

The nature reserve has the following fauna:

### Birds

* Common kingfisher
* Common buzzard
* European goldfinch
* Eurasian treecreeper
* Common reed bunting
* Red kite
* Common chiffchaff
* European green woodpecker
* Eurasian bullfinch
* Water rail
* European turtle dove
* Garden warbler
* Dunnock
* European greenfinch
* Common chaffinch
* Common blackbird
* Common wood pigeon
* Eurasian blue tit
* Great spotted woodpecker
* House sparrow
* Western jackdaw
* Common house martin
* Goldcrest
* Common kestrel
* Eurasian blackcap
* Eurasian wren
* Eurasian siskin
* Western yellow wagtail
* Tree pipit
* Eurasian woodcock
* Great tit
* Eurasian jay
* European robin
* Song thrush
* Common moorhen
* Mandarin duck
* Snipe
* Eurasian nuthatch
* Common whitethroat
* Eurasian magpie
* Common raven

### Invertebrates

* High brown fritillary
* Orange tip
* Purple emperor
* Pearl-bordered fritillary
* Green hairstreak
* Mother Shipton moth
* Burnet companion
* Emerald pot-bellied beetle
* Brimstone
* Narrow bordered bee hawkmoth
* Peacock
* Four-spotted chaser
* Small copper
* Small yellow underwing
* Scorpion fly
* Green-veined white
* Common blue
* Speckled yellow
* Straw dot moth
* Painted lady
* Yellow meadow ant

## Flora

The nature reserve has the following flora:

### Trees

* Alder
* Hawthorn
* Blackthorn

### Plants

* Yarrow
* Bugle
* Garlic mustard
* Marsh foxtail
* Meadow foxtail
* Bog pimpernel
* Wood anemone
* Wild angelica
* Sterile brome
* Sweet vernal grass
* Cow parsley
* Fool's water cress
* Lesser burdock
* Daisy
* Hard fern
* Marsh marigold
* Wavy bitter-cress
* Cuckooflower
* Lesser pond-sedge
* Spring-sedge
* Brown sedge
* Star sedge
* Glaucous sedge
* Hairy sedge
* Oval sedge
* False fox-sedge
* Carnation sedge
* Pale sedge
* Greater tussock-sedge
* Pill sedge
* Remote sedge
* Wood sedge
* Bladder sedge
* Common knapweed
* Common mouse-ear
* Greater celandine
* Opposite-leaved golden saxifrage
* Enchanter's nightshade
* Creeping thistle
* Meadow thistle
* Marsh thistle
* Pignut
* Beaked hawk's-beard
* Crosswort
* Crested dog's-tail
* Broom
* Cock's-foot
* Heath spotted-orchid
* Tufted hair-grass
* Foxglove
* Field horsetail
* Marsh horsetail
* Common cottongrass
* Hemp-agrimony
* Red fescue
* Lesser celandine
* Meadowsweet
* Heath bedstraw
* Lady's bedstraw
* Wood avens
* Marsh cudweed
* Floating sweet-grass
* Dyer's greenweed
* Yorkshire fog
* Water violet
* Bluebell
* Cat's-ear
* Slender St John's-wort
* Square-stalked St John's-wort
* Yellow iris
* Toad rush
* Soft rush
* Bitter-vetch
* Perennial rye-grass
* Common bird's-foot trefoil
* Greater bird's-foot trefoil
* Heath wood-rush
* Hairy wood-rush
* Gypsywort
* Common cow-wheat
* Wood melick
* Water mint
* Three-nerved sandwort
* Water forget-me-not
* Hemlock water-dropwort
* Greater broomrape
* Marsh lousewort
* Green alkanet
* Mouse-ear-hawkweed
* Ribwort plantain
* Rough meadow-grass
* Solomon's-seal
* Meadow buttercup
* Bulbous buttercup
* Lesser spearwort
* Creeping buttercup
* Great yellow-cress
* Wood club-rush
* Tall fescue
* Water figwort
* Figwort
* Red campion
* Ragged robin
* Woody nightshade
* Bog stitchwort
* Lesser stitchwort
* Greater stitchwort
* Marsh stitchwort
* Devil's-bit scabious
* Large thyme
* Lesser trefoil
* Red clover
* Marsh arrow grass
* Bulrush
* Gorse
* Marsh valerian
* Common valerian
* Brooklime
* Germander speedwell
* Wood speedwell
* Heath speedwell
* Thyme-leaved speedwell
* Bilberry