Hamstead Marshall Pit

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Hamstead Marshall Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire. The county has 66 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. It is the smallest of them. The surrounding countryside is part of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

For arrivals by rail, Kintbury Station is about 2.9 km to the west. For more of the same, Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain and West Woodhay Down are close by.

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North Wessex Downs

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Rolling chalk downland above the Vale of the White Horse, threaded by one of Britain's oldest roads

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Kennet & Avon Canal

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The broad-beam crossing of southern England — river, canal and river again from Bristol's Avon to the Thames at Reading, over the chalk by the Caen Hill flight.

0.8 km N · spans 5 counties