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Butser Hill NNR is a large area of chalk grassland within the Queen Elizabeth Country Park run by Hampshire County Council, near Horndean. The main habitats in the reserve include woodland and lowland grassland, and nearby is the Butser Ancient Farm – a unique experimental archaeological site that displays ongoing reconstructions of Iron Age buildings, prehistoric crops and rare farm breeds. The slopes of Butser Hill are home to an interesting community of butterflies and moths including the Duke of Burgundy, chalk hill blue and silver-spotted skipper. During the summer months it is a great place to enjoy skylarks displaying and singing high above the meadows. The woodland parts of the reserve host a range of mammals, such as roe and fallow deer, fox, badger, stoat and weasel, and a fantastic variety of reptiles can also be found here, including Britain’s only poisonous snake, the adder, the slow worm, common lizard and newt.
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Hampshire’s varied landscape of hills and heaths, downlands and forests, valleys and coast is without rival in southern England. Combine these varied landscapes and terrains with secluded and idyllic villages, complete with thatched and timber-framed cottages and Norman churches, elegant Georgian market towns, historic ports and cities, restored canals and ancient abbeys, forts and castles, and you have a county that is paradise for lovers of the great outdoors.
If you’re a walker, stride out across the high, rolling, chalk downland of the north Hampshire ‘highlands’ with far-reaching views, walk through steep, beech-clad ‘hangers’ close to the Sussex border. Or perhaps take a gentler stroll and meander along peaceful paths through unspoilt river valleys, etched by the sparkling trout streams of the Test, Itchen, Avon and Meon. Alternatively, wander across lonely salt marshes and beside fascinating coastal inlets or, perhaps, explore the beautiful medieval forest and heathland of the New Forest, the jewel in Hampshire’s crown.
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