- There are two hills is Hampshire called Beacon Hill; the other one is near Burghclere
Beacon Hill, Warnford, Hampshire (grid reference SU604234) is a 44.8 hectare biological SSSI, west of the village of Warnford in Hampshire, England, first notified in 1979. The site consists of the steep slopes of a chalk spur on the western side of the Meon valley, covered by chalk grassland, beech / ash / hazel woodland and chalk scrub. There are two separate sections, which are not joined to each other - a main section, and a second, smaller area, to the north. The grassland at the site has sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina), salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) and common rock-rose (Helianthemum nummularium) as its dominant species. Other species present are Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa), yellow-wort (Blackstonia perfoliata), fragrant orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea) and clustered bellflower (Campanula glomerata). The grassland supports several rarer species - rampion (Phyteuma tenerum), field fleawort (Senecio integrifolius), hairy rock-cress (Arabis hirsuta) and man orchid (Aceras anthropophorum). The site's butterfly fauna in mentioned as in its citation sheet. Twenty-five species are known to breed, including colonies of Silver-spotted Skipper and Duke of Burgundy, together with comparatively large populations of Brown Argus, Green Hairstreak, Chalkhill Blue, Marbled White and Dingy Skipper.
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