Sunbiggin Tarn

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Sunbiggin Tarn & Moors and Little Asby Scar
Site of Special Scientific Interest
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Location within Cumbria
Location Cumbria
Grid reference NY685083
Coordinates 54°27′48″N2°30′10″W / 54.4634°N 2.5029°W / 54.4634; -2.5029
InterestBiological/Geological
Area3.86 square miles (1,000.435  ha) for the full SSSI
Notification 30 November 1994
Location map Magic Map (Defra)
Natural England website

Sunbiggin Tarn is a tarn near Sunbiggin in Cumbria. It is in a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which also includes the surrounding moorland and limestone pavement of Little Asby Scar.

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Flora

common bent, mother of thyme, sheep fescue, Sesleria albicans, Galium sterneri grassland Calluna vulgaris Erica cinerea, Vaccinium myrtillus heath Scirpus cespitosus, Erica tetralix wet heath Carex elata, Equisetum fluviatile, Cladium mariscus, Carex rostrata, Potentilla palustris, Phragmites australis swamp, sedge and reed-beds

Fauna

black-headed gull, gadwall, little grebe, osprey, starling, water rail, wigeon [1] Geyer's whorl snail

Geology

Dinantian, Karst

References

  1. Mike Bagshaw (2019), "Sunbiggin Tarn", Slow Travel: Yorkshire Dales, Bradt Travel Guides, p. 33, ISBN   9781784776091