Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
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Location | West Sussex |
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Grid reference | SU 886 136 [1] |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 25.6 hectares (63 acres) [1] |
Notification | 1987 [1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Levin Down is a 25.6-hectare (63-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Midhurst in West Sussex. [1] [2] It is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust. [3]
This is an area of chalk grassland and heath on the slope of the South Downs. The chalk turf has a rich variety of flora, such as autumn gentian, salad burnet, round-headed rampion, autumn lady’s tresses, eyebright, glaucous sedge and quaking grass. [4]
There is access by a footpath from Charlton.