Hurst Hill, Oxfordshire
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. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
| 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 |
The site is owned by All Souls College, Oxford, 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. The fossil belongs to a typically North African genus, and provides evidence of a land bridge across the proto-Atlantic in the Late Jurassic.
The hill is mentioned in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy.
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