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List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham

 
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This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in County Durham. Note that English Nature, the designating body for SSSIs in England, uses the 1974-1996 county system, and this list follows the same approach. Some sites you may expect to find here could therefore be in either the Cleveland or the Tyne and Wear lists.

For other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search. The data in this table is taken from English Nature's website in the form of citation sheets for each SSSI.[1]

Site name Reason for designation Area[A] Grid reference[B][C] Year in which notified[D] Map[E]
Biological interest Geological interest Hectares Acres
Backstone Bank And Baal Hill Woods 46.50 114.90
Baldersdale Woodlands 19.60 48.40
Bishop Middleham Quarry 8.60 21.25
Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston And Woodland Fells 7949.19 19643.15
Botany Hill 3.75 9.26
Bowes Moor 4457.70 11014.90
Bowlees And Friar House Meadows 5.61 13.86
Brasside Pond 25.10 62.00
Brignall Banks 85.00 210.00
Burnhope Burn 5.10 12.60
Butterby Oxbow 7.29 18.02
Cassop Vale 40.90 101.00
Castle Eden Dene 192.97 476.83
Causey Bank Mires 6.80 16.00
Charity Land 5.84 14.43
Close House Mine 3.37 8.32
Cornriggs Meadows 15.20 37.50
Cotherstone Moor 2449.45 6050.14
Crag Gill 2.30 5.70
Crime Rigg And Sherburn Hill Quarries 23.22 57.38
Dabble Bank 4.12 10.18
Derwent Gorge & Horsleyhope Ravine 83.00 205.00
Durham Coast 765.41 1891.37
Fairy Holes Cave 208.80 515.90
Far High House Meadows 5.50 13.60
Fishburn Grassland 1.12 2.77
Foster's Hush 1.30 3.20
Frog Wood Bog 3.20 7.90
God's Bridge 9.30 22.90
Grains O'Th' Beck Meadows 12.30 30.40
Green Croft And Langley Moor 27.70 68.50
Greenfoot Quarry 0.90 2.20
Hannah's Meadows 7.10 17.50
Hawthorn Dene 64.10 158.40
Hawthorn Quarry 9.80 24.20
Hell Kettles 3.40 8.40
Hesledon Moor East 6.00 14.83
Hesledon Moor West 7.40 18.20
Hexhamshire Moors 9433.90 23311.67
Hisehope Burn Valley 14.90 36.90
Hulam Fen 0.20 0.50
Hunder Beck Juniper 3.45 8.52
Kilmond Scar 4.50 11.10
Low Redford Meadows 9.30 22.90
Lune Forest 6333.44 15650.27
Mere Beck Meadows 6.60 16.30
Middle Crossthwaite 24.07 59.48
Middle Side & Stonygill Meadows 17.27 42.67
Middleton Quarry 6.00 14.80
Middridge Quarry 1.90 4.70
Moorhouse And Cross Fell 13707.00 33870.00
Muggleswick, Stanhope & Edmundbyers Commons & Blanchland Moor 9118.12 22531.37
Neasham Fen 2.46 6.08
Newton Ketton Meadow 1.80 4.50
Old Moss Lead Vein 0.60 1.50
Park End Wood 10.33 25.52
Pig Hill 12.60 31.20
Pike Whin Bog 1.25 3.12
Pittington Hill 6.40 15.80
Pow Hill Bog 6.70 16.60
Quarrington Hill Grasslands 4.49 11.10
Railway Stell West 4.60 11.40
Raisby Hill Grassland 15.13 37.39
Raisby Hill Quarry 52.42 129.53
Redcar Field 0.67 1.60
Rigg Farm And Stake Hill Meadows 14.70 36.30
Rogerley Quarry 5.60 13.80
Sherburn Hill 16.70 41.20
Shipley And Great Woods 63.35 156.50
Sleightholme Beck Gorge - The Troughs 7.50 18.50
Slit Woods 14.10 34.80
Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon 0.83 2.05
Teesdale Allotments 1308.34 3231.60
The Bottoms 2.15 5.21
The Carrs 12.90 31.90
Thrislington Plantation 22.72 56.14
Town Kelloe Bank 6.00 15.00
Trimdon Limestone Quarry 0.80 1.98
Tuthill Quarry 10.71 26.45
Upper Teesdale 14035.60 34681.90
Waldridge Fell 113.50 280.40
West Newlandside Meadows 12.50 30.80
West Park Meadows 6.70 16.60
West Rigg Open Cutting 4.80 11.90
Westernhope Burn Wood 11.80 29.10
Wingate Quarry 23.35 57.70
Witton-le-Wear 36.16 89.35
Yoden Village Quarry 0.40 1.00

Notes

A  Data rounded to two decimal places.
B  Grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system, also known as OSGB36, and is the system used by the Ordnance Survey.[2]
C  Those SSSIs with more than one OS grid reference are composed of multiple sections, separated by non-SSSI land.[2]
D  Site notification consists of designating a site as an SSSI and consulting with the owner(s). This list uses the date notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
E  Link to maps using the Nature on the Map service provided by Natural England.

References

  1. ^ Natural England citation sheets for each SSSI. Retrieved on 2008-02-26. (PDF files).
  2. ^ a b "Guide to National Grid". Ordnance Survey. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/help.html#gridref. Retrieved on 2008-02-21. 
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