Cumnor Hurst

Hurst Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Oxfordshire
Grid reference	SP 476 041
Interest	Biological; Geological
Area	20.6 hectares (51 acres)
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Hurst Hill or Cumnor Hurst is a 20.6-hectare (51-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Oxford in Oxfordshire.^[1]^[2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.^[3]

The site is owned by All Souls College, Oxford,^[4] and its mosses and liverworts have been monitored for more than fifty years. The hill is also important geologically. In 1879 a fossil of a Camptosaurus prestwichii, a large herbivorous dinosaur dating to the Upper Jurassic 153 million years ago, was found on the site.^[5] The fossil belongs to a typically North African genus, and provides evidence of a land bridge across the proto-Atlantic in the Late Jurassic.^[6]

The hill is mentioned in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Designated Sites View: Hurst Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^ "Map of Hurst Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^ "Chawley Brickpits, Cumnor Hurst (Jurassic - Cretaceous Reptilia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
^ ^a ^b Hopkins, Gerard Manley (2015). The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Oxford University Press. p. 371, n. 625.
^ "Dinosaurs in the Museum" (PDF). Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^ "Hurst Hill citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

External links

Introduction to Cumnor's Landscape

51°44′00″N 1°18′40″W / 51.73333°N 1.31111°W / 51.73333; -1.31111

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[dsv-1] "Designated Sites View: Hurst Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

[map-2] "Map of Hurst Hill". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

[3] "Chawley Brickpits, Cumnor Hurst (Jurassic - Cretaceous Reptilia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2020.

[gmh-4] Hopkins, Gerard Manley (2015). The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Oxford University Press. p. 371, n. 625.

[5] "Dinosaurs in the Museum" (PDF). Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

[6] "Hurst Hill citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

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