Site of Special Scientific Interest
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A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic 'building block' of nature conservation legislation, and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations are based upon them, including National Nature Reserves, Ramsar Sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation.
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Legal status
The government has a power to designate as an SSSI any area of land which it considers to be of special interest by virtue of its fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features.
The designation can be made by English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Countryside Council for Wales or the Environment and Heritage Service (Northern Ireland). In Northern Ireland some areas are designated as Areas Of Special Scientific Interest under the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, which is essentially the same as SSSI legislation. An SSSI is not necessarily open to the public, or owned by a conservation organisation or by the Government — in fact, they can be owned by anybody.
The current legal framework for SSSIs is provided by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, amended 1985, and the protection of SSSIs was enhanced by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
List of SSSIs
SSSIs in England
- SSSIs in the Somerset Levels:
- SSSIs in Warrington and surrounding area:
- SSSIs in Cambridgeshire:
- SSSIs in Derbyshire:
- Abney & Bretton Cloughs
- Ambergate And Ridgeway Quarries
- Bage Mine
- Baileycroft Quarry
- Ballidon Dale
- Bee's Nest And Green Clay Pits
- Bonsall Leys
- Boulton Moor
- Bradwell Dale And Bagshaw Cavern
- Bradwell Meadows
- Breadsall Railway Cutting
- Calke Park
- Calton Hill
- Carver's Rocks
- Castleton
- Cawdor Quarry
- Chatsworth Old Park
- Chrome And Parkhouse Hills
- Clough Woods
- Colehill Quarries
- Combs Reservoir
- Coombs Dale
- Crabtree Wood
- Cressbrook Dale
- Creswell Crags
- Cromford Canal
- Dale Quarry
- Dark Peak
- Dirtlow Rake And Pindale
- Doe Lea Stream Section
- Dove Valley And Biggin Dale
- Duchy Quarry
- Duckmanton Railway Cutting
- Eastern Peak District Moors
- Edale
- Fall Hill Quarry
- Fox Hole Cave
- Gang Mine
- Ginny Spring,whitwell Wood
- Goyt Valley
- Green Lane Pits
- Harewood Grange Stream Section
- Hilton Gravel Pits
- Hipley Hill
- Hollinhill And Markland Grips
- Hulland Moss
- Jumble Coppice
- Kedleston Park
- Kirkham's Silica Sandpit
- Lathkill Dale
- Lee Farm Meadow, Tideswell
- Leek Moors
- Long Dale & Gratton Dale
- Long Dale, Hartington
- Longstone Moor
- Ludworth Intake
- Masson Hill
- Matlock Woods
- Mercaston Marsh And Muggington Bottoms
- Monk's Dale
- Morley Brick Pits
- Moss Valley
- Moss Valley Meadows
- Moss Valley Woods
- Ogston Reservoir
- Oxlow Rake
- Parwich Moor
- Poole's Cavern And Grin Low Wood
- Portway Mine
- River Derwent At Hathersage
- River Mease
- Rose End Meadows
- Rowlee Bridge
- Shining Cliff Woods
- Stoney Middleton Dale
- The Wye Valley
- Ticknall Quarries
- Tideslow Rake
- Toddbrook Reservoir
- Topley Pike And Deepdale
- Upper Lathkill
- Via Gellia Woodlands
- Waterswallow's Quarry
- Wyns Tor
- Yarncliff Wood, Padley
- SSSIs in Merseyside:
SSSIs in Scotland
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