Editing Brighton and Hove (section)

==== Bevendean Down and Falmer Hill ====
{{Main|Bevendean Down}}
[[File:Bevendean_Down_(Local_Nature_Reserve),_Bevendean_(May_2020)_(6).JPG|thumb|left|Bevendean Down (Local Nature Reserve)]]
[[File:Bridleway,_Falmer_Hill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_62988.jpg|thumb|Bridleway, Falmer Hill]]
'''[[Bevendean Down]]''' ({{Gbmappingsmall|TQ 33 06}}) is a local nature reserve (LNR). Its hot, south-facing slopes and as a result is home to lizards and many butterflies. The area is well looked after by local people in cooperation with the tenant farmer and the Council rangers. There is a dew pond where [[swallow]]s and [[House Martin|house martins]] skim the water. [[Chalkhill blue|Chalkhill]] and [[adonis blue]] and [[brown argus]] butterflies are found in numbers in the area.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Pawsey|first1=Tessa|last2=Stevens|first2=Geoff|title=Bevendean LNR|url=https://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sites/bevendean.php|url-status=live|access-date=15 October 2021|website=Butterfly Conservation – Sussex Branch|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810053204/https://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sites/bevendean.php |archive-date=10 August 2020 }}</ref> '''Hogtrough Bottom''' ({{Gbmappingsmall|TQ 340 070}}) has a mixture of taller grassland, short [[Sheep's-fescue|sheep's fescue]] turf, and scrub. On the shorter ground some years are large swarms of [[Autumn Ladies'-tresses|autumn ladies tresses]]. There are lots of scarce species such as [[Bastard Toadflax|bastard toadflax]], [[waxcap]], and [[webcap]] fungi, [[four-spot orb-weaver]] and [[purseweb spider]]s, but the tapestry of summer colours is the main delight which come from the purple [[knapweed]] and [[felwort]], blue [[Scabiosa|scabious]], yellow [[hawkbit]], and [[Rockrose family|rockrose]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Bangs|first=Dave|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701098669|title=A freedom to roam Guide to the Brighton Downs : from Shoreham to Newhaven and Beeding to Lewes|date=2008|publisher=David Bangs|isbn=978-0-9548638-1-4|location=Brighton|oclc=701098669}}</ref>

On the southern side of Bevendean is '''Heath Hill''' which runs up to Warren Road and two horse pasture smallholdings, Southdown Riding Stables ({{Gbmappingsmall|TQ 335 058}}) and Inglesíde Stables to the east. Neither receive any agro-chemicals and consequently have gathered rich wildlife in the past half century. [[Swallow]]s and [[Swift (bird)|swifts]], [[bat]]s and [[dung beetle]]s, [[Rook (bird)|rooks]] and [[Green woodpecker|woodpecker]] and the [[hornet robberfly]] all survive on the rich supply of insects attracted by the pony dung.<ref name=":2" /> Both the farmsteads of Southdown's and Ingleside Stables are targeted for housing development within [[Brighton and Hove City Council]]'s draft City Plan Part 2. The loss of these two farmsteads, which organise the grazing of these nature-rich pastures, would put them at risk.<ref name=":0" /> To the east of Heath Hill is Race Hill which is part of the Bevendean Down LNR. The Brighton Permaculture Trust has created a community orchard on Race Hill.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Race Hill Community Orchard |url=https://brightonpermaculture.org.uk/orchards-and-fruit/racehill-community-orchard/about-racehill/ |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=Brighton Permaculture Trust}}</ref>

'''Falmer Hill''' ({{Gbmappingsmall|TQ 365 076}}) gives great views across to [[Hollingbury Castle]] and [[Stanmer Park]] and the higher Downs beyond. The Hill's top remained unploughed till the last World War. It had a cluster of about ten probably Saxon [[Tumulus|barrows]] and a couple of [[round barrow]]s. Nothing remains now except white smears of chalk and flint on the ploughed earth, where the barrows were.<ref name=":2" /> To the west of the Hill is City boundary which borders the [[Kingston near Lewes]] parish.