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Park and biological site of interest

Burton Park SSSI
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location	West Sussex
Grid reference	SU 977 176
Interest	Biological
Area	57.7 hectares (143 acres)
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Burton Park SSSI is a 57.7-hectare (143-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Pulborough in West Sussex. A larger area of 63 hectares (160 acres), including Chingford Pond to the west, is designated a Local Nature Reserve called Burton and Chingford Ponds, which is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust and West Sussex County Council. The site is adjacent to Burton Park, a Grade I listed building.

This site comprises a large pond, carr woodland, bog, wet heath and marshy grassland. There is a diverse range of invertebrates including three nationally rare species, the snail Omphiscola glabra and the craneflies Erioptera meijerei and Tipula marginata. The site is also important for its breeding water birds, such as water rails and great crested grebes.

References

^ "Designated Sites View: Burton Park". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
"Map of Burton Park". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
"Burton and Chingford Ponds". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
"Map of Burton and Chingford Ponds". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
"Burton and Chingford Ponds". Sussex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
"Burton Park citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

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v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in West Sussex
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Geological	Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill Bognor Common Quarry Bognor Reef Bracklesham Bay Chantry Mill Chichester Harbour Coneyhurst Cutting Coppedhall Hanger Eartham Pit, Boxgrove Felpham Freshfield Lane Horton Clay Pit Marehill Quarry Pagham Harbour Park Farm Cutting Perry Copse Outcrop Philpot's and Hook Quarries Selsey, East Beach Slinfold Stream and Quarry Stone Hill Rocks Turners Hill Wakehurst and Chiddingly Woods Warnham West Hoathly

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in West Sussex

Biological

Geological

v t e Sussex Wildlife Trust
Brighton and Hove	Withdean Woods
Chichester	Burton and Chingford Ponds Cooksbridge Meadow Ebernoe Common Graffham Common Iping and Stedham Commons Levin Down The Mens Waltham Brooks West Dean Woods
Hastings	Filsham Reedbed Marline Valley
Horsham	Amberley Wildbrooks Woods Mill
Lewes	Ditchling Beacon Malling Down Seaford Head Southerham Farm
Rother	Flatropers Wood Gillham Woods Rye Harbour
Wealden	Brickfield Meadow Eridge Rocks Old Lodge Pevensey Marshes Selwyns Wood

v t e Local nature reserves in West Sussex
Adur	Lancing Ring Mill Hill Shoreham Beach Widewater Lagoon
Arun	The Brooks Local Nature Reserve Fairmile Bottom Pagham Harbour West Beach
Chichester	Brandy Hole Copse Burton and Chingford Ponds Eames Farm Harting Down Iping Common Lynchmere Commons Nutborne Marshes Pilsey Island
Crawley	Grattons Park Target Hill Park Tilgate Forest
Horsham	Tottington Wood Warnham
Mid Sussex	Ardingly Reservoir Ashenground and Bolnore Woods Bedelands Farm Nature Reserve Blunts Wood and Paiges Meadow Eastern Road Nature Reserve Scrase Valley

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