Prescombe Down

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Prescombe Down is a National Nature Reserve in Wiltshire, covering 0.48 km². It is one of six National Nature Reserves in the county. It lies within Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape.

Other nature reserves nearby include Bowerchalke Downs and Gallows Hill. For arrivals by rail, Tisbury Station is about 5 km to the north-west.

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Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

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