30.1.06
Cattle all over Mill Hill
30 January 2006
There are cattle all over Mill Hill from Old Erringham Farm enriching the low nutrient hillsides with their dung and threatening the flora (Horseshoe Vetch) and the internationally important population of Chalkhill Blue Butterflies. It looks like the fence was broken down deliberately, probably at the instigation of the South Downs Conservation Board on public land given to the people of Shoreham. There is also the danger or erosion, breaking up the steps under the hooves of the cattle and reduction of the amenity value of the downs. They were timid cattle and they were shooed of the vulnerable lower slopes by the public.
1 February 2006
The cattle have now been removed.
New Plan/Map for Mill Hill
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/MillHillNR.htm
Adur Valley Area Map for Nature Sites
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Downs.htm#Area%20Map
History of Mill Hill
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/MillHillHistory.html
There are cattle all over Mill Hill from Old Erringham Farm enriching the low nutrient hillsides with their dung and threatening the flora (Horseshoe Vetch) and the internationally important population of Chalkhill Blue Butterflies. It looks like the fence was broken down deliberately, probably at the instigation of the South Downs Conservation Board on public land given to the people of Shoreham. There is also the danger or erosion, breaking up the steps under the hooves of the cattle and reduction of the amenity value of the downs. They were timid cattle and they were shooed of the vulnerable lower slopes by the public.
1 February 2006
The cattle have now been removed.
New Plan/Map for Mill Hill
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/MillHillNR.htm
Adur Valley Area Map for Nature Sites
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Downs.htm#Area%20Map
History of Mill Hill
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/MillHillHistory.html
