The Down is best known as the setting for Richard Adams' 1972 novel about rabbits, also called Watership Down.[1] The area is popular with cyclists and walkers. A bridleway, the Wayfarer's Walk cross-county footpath, runs along the ridge of the Down which lies at the south-eastern edge of the North Wessex Downs Area of Natural Beauty. Other nearby features include Ladle Hill, on Great Litchfield Down, immediately to the west. Part of the hill is a 10.37-hectare (25.6-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, first notified in 1978. The hill has a partially completed Iron Agehill fort on its summit, and the surrounding area is rich in Iron Age tumuli, enclosures, lynchets and field systems. Further to the west lies Beacon Hill. Watership Down is accessible via the large village of Kingsclere.
^"Interview - In-Conversation with Simon Marsh (General Manager of Watership Down & Kiltinan Castle Stud)". Secretariat's World. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
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