Shawford Down is a 19.6-hectare (48-acre) Local Nature Reserve south of Winchester in Hampshire.

It is owned by Hampshire County Council and managed by Hampshire Countryside Service.

[1][2] The down has strip lynchets, dating to the period in the Middle Ages when the area was cultivated as common land.

The site has a range of chalk grassland habitats, with flora including wild parsnip, red bartsia, cowslip and common rock-rose.

There are also areas of woodland and scrub.