Hurley Chalk Pit

Hurley Chalk Pit


Type	Nature reserve
Location	Maidenhead, Berkshire
OS grid	SU813824
Area	1 hectare (2.5 acres)
Managed by	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Hurley Chalk Pit is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) nature reserve west of Maidenhead in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.^[1]

This chalk pit, which was dug more than 150 years ago, is warm and sheltered and it has 15 species of butterfly, including common blues and gatekeepers. There are varied habitats, with woodland, scrub, grassland and hedges.^[1]

There is access from a footpath which runs north from Warren Row.

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References

1 2 "Hurley Chalk Pit". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 20 January 2020.

51°31′55″N 0°49′45″W / 51.5320°N 0.8293°W / 51.5320; -0.8293

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Berkshire

Bracknell Forest	Chawridge Bank Wildmoor Heath
Slough	Haymill Valley
West Berkshire	Audrey's Meadow Avery's Pightle Bowdown Woods Bucklebury Common Decoy Heath Greenham and Crookham Commons Hosehill Lake Inkpen Common Inkpen Crocus Field Kintbury Newt Ponds Moor Copse Nature Discovery Centre Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve Paices Wood Country Parkland Rack Marsh Seven Barrows Snelsmore Common Country Park Sole Common Pond Thatcham Reed Beds Watts Bank Wokefield Common
Windsor and Maidenhead	Hurley Chalk Pit
Wokingham	Loddon Nature Reserve Shepperlands Farm

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury Vale	Aston Clinton Ragpits Bernwood Meadows Calvert Jubilee College Lake Dancersend with Pavis Woods Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir Hog and Hollowhill Woods Pilch Fields Rushbeds Wood Upper Ray Meadows Weston Turville Reservoir Yoesden
Chiltern	Long Grove Wood
Milton Keynes	Little Linford Wood
Wycombe	Bacombe Hill Gomm Valley Grangelands and The Rifle Range Homefield Wood Millfield Wood

Oxfordshire

Cherwell	Ardley Wood Quarry Asham Meads Hook Norton Cutting Lamb's Pool Oxey Mead Whitecross Green Wood Woodford Bottom and Lamb's Pool Woodsides Meadow
Oxford	CS Lewis Nature Reserve Iffley Meadows
South Oxfordshire	Chinnor Hill Cholsey Marsh Hartslock Oakley Hill Sydlings Copse Warren Bank Wells Farm
Vale of White Horse	Dry Sandford Pit Hitchcopse Pit Lashford Lane Fen Letcombe Valley Parsonage Moor Tuckmill Meadow Warburg Nature Reserve
West Oxfordshire	Blenheim Farm Chimney Meadows Foxholes Glyme Valley Westwell Gorse

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