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There are three notable rivers that flow through the county: the River Avon (Bristol), the River Avon (Hampshire) and the River Thames. Due to the geology of the county, the rivers and waterways discharge to the west, east and south.
Aspect of the Clattinger Farm Site of Special Scientific Interest, currently managed by Wiltshire Wildlife. Clattinger Farm (grid reference) is a 60.3 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1971. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.
As it reached its 20th anniversary, the trust owned 30 nature reserves and had 2,000 members. In 1989, the first Sarsen Trail & Neolithic Marathon was held, raising £21,500 which was used to buy Morgan's Hill nature reserve. For its 30th anniversary, in 1992, the trust formally changed its name to Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.
Stoke Common Meadows. Stoke Common Meadows (grid reference) is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in north Wiltshire, England. The 10.2 hectare site is in Purton parish, 1.6 miles (2.6 km) west of Purton Common hamlet and 3 miles (5 km) south-west of the town of Cricklade.
Upper Waterhay Meadow (grid reference) is a 2.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in north Wiltshire, England, notified in 1971. It lies on the Thames floodplain in Ashton Keynes parish, downstream (east) of Ashton Keynes village and west of the town of Cricklade.
The River Chalke is the most significant tributary, rising in Bowerchalke and flowing through the Chalke Valley to join the Ebble at Mount Sorrel in Broad Chalke. The Chalke also provides a steady, year round flow, so that the winterbourne section of the Ebble is only from Alvediston to Knapp.
Landford Bog (grid reference) is an 11.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Landford in southeast Wiltshire, England. It was notified in 1987. The site is managed as a nature reserve by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust .
The Marden in the grounds of Blackland House, upstream of Calne. The Marden rises just north of the valley of Ranscombe Bottom near Calstone Wellington in Wiltshire. [1] It then flows in a north-west direction through the Blackland area, where it forms a small ornamental lake at Blackland House, and on to Quemerford, where it is joined on the right bank by the Rivers Brook.