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This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Dorset. In England the body responsible for designating SSSIs is Natural England, which chooses a site because of its fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features.[1] For other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search.

Contents

A - B

Site name Reason for Designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological Interest Geological Interest Hectares Acres
Abbotsbury Blind Lane     [1] [2]
Abbotsbury Castle     [3] [4]
Arne     [5] [6]
Aunt Mary's Bottom     [7] [8]
Avon Valley (Bickton To Christchurch)     [9] [10]
River Axe, Devon     [11] [12]
Babylon Hill     [13] [14]
Batcombe Down     [15] [16]
Belle Vue Quarry     [17] [18]
Bere Stream     [19] [20]
Black Hill Down     [21] [22]
Black Hill Heath     [23] [24]
Blackdown (Hardy Monument)     [25] [26]
Blandford Camp     [27] [28]
Blashenwell Farm Pit     [29] [30]
Blue Pool And Norden Heaths     [31] [32]
Boulsbury Wood     [33] [34]
Bourne Valley     [35] [36]
Bracket's Coppice And Ryewater Farm     [37] [38]
Bradford Abbas Railway Cutting     [39] [40]
Breach Fields     [41] [42]
Brenscombe Heath     [43] [44]
Bryanston     [45] [46]
Bugden's Copse And Meadows     [47] [48]
Burton Bradstock     [49] [50]

C - F

Site name Reason for Designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological Interest Geological Interest Hectares Acres
Canford Heath     [51] [52]
Chalbury Hill And Quarry     [53] [54]
Chesil & The Fleet     [55] [56]
Christchurch Harbour     [57] [58]
Conegar Road Cutting     [59] [60]
Corfe & Barrow Hills     [61] [62]
Corfe Common     [63] [64]
Corfe Meadows     [65] [66]
Corfe Mullen Pastures     [67] [68]
Corton Cutting     [69] [70]
Court Farm, Sydling     [71] [72]
Cranborne Common     [73] [74]
Creech Grange     [75] [76]
Crookhill Brick Pit     [77] [78]
Cull-peppers Dish     [79] [80]
Drakenorth     [81] [82]
East Coppice     [83] [84]
Ebblake Bog     [85] [86]
Eggardon Hill & Luccas Farm     [87] [88]
Ferndown Common     [89] [90]
Fontmell And Melbury Downs     [91] [92]
Frogden Quarry     [93] [94]
River Frome     [95] [96]
Frome St. Quintin     [97] [98]

G - I

Site name Reason for Designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological Interest Geological Interest Hectares Acres
Giant Hill     [99] [100]
Goathill Quarry     [101] [102]
Halfway House Quarry     [103] [104]
Ham Common     [105] [106]
Handcocks Bottom     [107] [108]
Hartland Moor     [109] [110]
Haydon And Askerswell Downs     [111] [112]
Highcliffe To Milford Cliffs     [113] [114]
Higher Houghton     [115] [116]
Hod And Hambledon Hills     [117] [118]
Hog Cliff     [119] [120]
Holnest     [121] [122]
Holt And West Moors Heaths     [123] [124]
Holton And Sandford Heaths     [125] [126]
Holway Hill Quarry     [127] [128]
Horn Park Quarry     [129] [130]
Horton Common     [131] [132]
Hurn Common     [133] [134]

L - O

Site name Reason for Designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological Interest Geological Interest Hectares Acres
Lambert's Castle     [135] [136]
Langford Meadow     [137] [138]
Lions Hill     [139] [140]
Lodmoor     [141] [142]
Lorton     [143] [144]
Low's Hill Quarry     [145] [146]
Lulworth Park & Lake     [147] [148]
Luscombe Valley     [149] [150]
Lydlinch Common & Stock Wood     [151] [152]
Lyscombe And Highdon     [153] [154]
Mapperton And Poorton Vales     [155] [156]
Martin And Tidpit Downs     [157] [158]
Melbury Park     [159] [160]
The Moors     [161] [162]
Moors River System     [163] [164]
Morcombelake     [165] [166]
Morden Bog And Hyde Heath     [167] [168]
Nicodemus Heights     [169] [170]
Oakers Bog     [171] [172]
Oakers Wood     [173] [174]
Oakhills Coppice     [175] [176]

P - R

Site name Reason for Designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological Interest Geological Interest Hectares Acres
Parley Common     [177] [178]
Peashill Quarry     [179] [180]
Pentridge Down     [181] [182]
Piddles Wood     [183] [184]
Pitcombe Down     [185] [186]
Poole Bay Cliffs     [187] [188]
Poole Harbour     [189] [190]
Isle of Portland     [191] [192]
Portland Harbour Shore     [193] [194]
Povington And Grange Heaths     [195] [196]
Powerstock Common And Wytherston Farm     [197] [198]
Poxwell     [199] [200]
Purbeck Ridge (East)     [201] [202]
Purbeck Ridge (West)     [203] [204]
Purewell Meadows     [205] [206]
Radipole Lake     [207] [208]
Rempstone Heaths     [209] [210]
Rooksmoor     [211] [212]

S - T

Site name Reason for Designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological Interest Geological Interest Hectares Acres
Sandford Lane Quarry     [213] [214]
Shillingstone Quarry     [215] [216]
Slop Bog And Uddens Heath     [217] [218]
South Dorset Coast     [219] [220]
St Leonards And St Ives Heaths     [221] [222]
Stoborough & Creech Heaths     [223] [224]
Stokeford Heaths     [225] [226]
Studland and Godlingston Heath NNR     [227] [228]
Studland Cliffs     [229] [230]
Sutton Combe     [231] [232]
Sutton Meadows     [233] [234]
Sydling Valley Downs     [235] [236]
Thrasher's Heath     [237] [238]
Toller Porcorum     [239] [240]
Town Common     [241] [242]
Townsend     [243] [244]
Trill Quarry     [245] [246]
Turbary And Kinson Commons     [247] [248]
Turners Puddle Heath     [249] [250]

U-Z

Site name Reason for Designation Area[A] Grid reference[B] Year in which notified Map[C]
Biological Interest Geological Interest Hectares Acres
Upton Heath     [251] [252]
Upwey Quarries And Bincombe Down     [253] [254]
Valley Of Stones     [255] [256]
Verwood Heaths     [257] [258]
Wareham Common     [259] [260]
Wareham Meadows     [261] [262]
Warmwell Heath     [263] [264]
West Dorset Coast     [265] [266]
Whetley Meadows     [267] [268]
White Horse Hill     [269] [270]
Winfrith Heath     [271] [272]
Woolcombe     [273] [274]
Wootton Fitzpaine     [275] [276]
Worgret Heath     [277] [278]

Notes

A Data rounded to one decimal place.
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 Link to maps using the Nature on the Map service provided by English Nature.

References

  1. ^ "Notification of SSSIs". Natural England. http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/notification.cfm. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
  2. ^ "Guide to National Grid". Ordnance Survey. http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/help.html#gridref. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
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