Roughdown Common

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Roughdown Common is one of 41 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire. Little Heath Pit and Ashridge Commons and Woods are among the SSSIs within 6.1 km. The nearest railway station, Hemel Hempstead, is under a kilometre away.

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