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North Solent

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Hampshire
Grid reference	SZ 427 993
Interest	Biological Geological
Area	1,186.7 hectares (2,932 acres)
Notification	1990
Location map	Magic Map

North Solent is a 1,186.7-hectare (2,932-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest along the north bank of the Solent between East End and Calshot in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Part of it is in North Solent National Nature Reserve and two areas are Geological Conservation Review sites. It is part of Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and of Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation. Boldre Foreshore is a local nature reserve.

This site has diverse habitats, including mudflats, saltmarshes, beaches, marshes, grassland and woods. It has rich insect populations and is of international importance for its wintering and migratory wildfowl and waders. Stone Point is important for studies of Quaternary stratigraphy, and it has many fossils dating to the Eemian interglacial, around 120,000 years ago.

References

1. ^ "Designated Sites View: North Solent". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
2. "Map of North Solent". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
3. Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 6, 299. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
4. "Designated Sites View: North Solent". National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
5. "Hurst Castle Spit (Coastal Geomorphology of England)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
6. "Keyhaven Marsh, Hurst Castle (Coastal Geomorphology of England)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
7. "Designated Sites View: Solent and Southampton Water". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
8. "Designated Sites View: Solent and Southampton Water". Special Protection Areas. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
9. "Designated Sites View: Solent Maritime". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
10. "Designated Sites View: Boldre Foreshore". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
11. "North Solent citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

50°44′10″N 1°31′55″W / 50.736°N 1.532°W / 50.736; -1.532

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire
Biological	Alresford Pond Ashford Hill Woods and Meadows Avon Valley (Bickton to Christchurch) Baddesley Common Basingstoke Canal Beacon Hill, Warnford Bentley Station Meadow Bere Mill Meadows Binswood Blackwater Valley Botley Wood and Everett's and Mushes Copses Boulsbury Wood Bourley and Long Valley Bramshill Bramshott and Ludshott Commons Bransbury Common Breamore Marsh Brickworth Down and Dean Hill Brockley Warren Broughton Down Browndown Broxhead and Kingsley Commons Burghclere Beacon Burton Common Butser Hill Butter Wood Castle Bottom to Yateley and Hawley Commons Catherington Down Cheesefoot Head Chichester Harbour Chilbolton Common Coombe Wood and The Lythe Coulters Dean Crab Wood Danebury Hill Dibden Bay East Aston Common Ebblake Bog Eelmoor Marsh Eling and Bury Marshes Fleet Pond Fletchwood Meadows Foxlease and Ancells Meadows Galley Down Wood Gilkicker Lagoon Greywell Fen Greywell Tunnel Hazeley Heath Highclere Park Hook Common and Bartley Heath Hook Heath Meadows Hurst Castle and Lymington River Estuary Hythe to Calshot Marshes Itchen Navigation Ladle Hill Langstone Harbour Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary Lincegrove and Hackett's Marshes Lower Test Valley Lye Heath Marsh Lymington River Lymington River Reedbeds Mapledurwell Fen Martin and Tidpit Downs Micheldever Spoil Heaps Moorgreen Meadows The Moors, Bishop's Waltham Mottisfont Bats The New Forest Noar Hill Norley Copse and Meadow North Solent Odiham Common with Bagwell Green and Shaw Old Burghclere Lime Quarry Old Winchester Hill Pamber Forest and Silchester Common Peake Wood Poors Common Porton Down Portsdown Portsmouth Harbour Quarley Hill Fort Ratlake Meadows River Avon System River Itchen River Test Ron Ward's Meadow With Tadley Pastures Roydon Woods Rushmore and Conholt Downs Selborne Common Shortheath Common Sidley Wood Sinah Common Southampton Common Sowley Pond St. Catherine's Hill Stockbridge Common Marsh Stockbridge Down Stockbridge Fen Titchfield Haven Toyd Down and Quarry Trodds Copse Upper Greensand Hangers: Empshott to Hawkley Upper Greensand Hangers: Wyck to Wheatley Upper Hamble Estuary and Woods Waltham Chase Meadows Warblington Meadow Warnborough Green Wealden Edge Hangers West Minley Meadow West Woodhay Down Wick Wood and Worldham Hangers The Wild Grounds Woolmer Forest
Geological	Butser Hill Downend Chalk Pit Dunbridge Pit Duncroft Farm Pit Heath Brow Highcliffe to Milford Cliffs Hurst Castle and Lymington River Estuary Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary Lymington River The New Forest North Solent

• Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire
• Geological Conservation Review sites
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