| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
  Location within Cumbria | |
| Location | Cumbria |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | NY 512128 |
| Coordinates | 54°30′29″N2°45′19″W / 54.508149°N 2.7551798°W |
| Area | 20.3 acres (0.08215 km2; 0.03172 sq mi) |
| Notification | 1985 |
Swindale Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) [1] [2] within the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. This protected area is located in Shap Rural parish.
The protected area is made up of a series of hay meadows. The meadows have a high diversity of plants including great burnet, pignut, lady's-mantle, alpine lady's-mantle, mountain pansy, melancholy thistle and globeflower. In acidic marshy grassland, plant species include heath spotted-orchid and northern marsh-orchid. Common sundew and butterwort have also been recorded. [1]
A footpath follows the southern boundary of this protected area. [3]
Land within Swindale Meadows SSSI is owned by United Utilities. [4] The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has been involved in the management of Swindale Meadows SSSI. [5]
The Scafells, or Scafell Massif, are a range of fells in the Cumbrian Mountains of England, made up of the remains of a caldera volcano. Fells in the range include Broad Crag, Ill Crag, Scafell, and Scafell Pike, England's tallest mountain. Great End, Lingmell and Slight Side are also usually included within the definition. These hills form part of the Southern Fells.
Aules Hill Meadows is the name given to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Northumberland, England. The site, listed since 1992, is a set of four traditionally managed northern hay meadows, now rare in Northumberland.
Barrow Meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in north Northumberland, England. The site is a species-rich hay meadow of a sort now rare in Northumberland.
Quarry Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, at the south edge of Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, and adjacent to the A61 road. It contains an outcrop of Magnesian Limestone, exposed by former quarrying. 255 million years ago this limestone was the peripheral sediment of a tropical sea. The land was donated in 1945 to the people of Ripon by the town's mayor, Alderman Thomas Fowler Spence, a varnish manufacturer. The land was notified as an SSSI in 1986 because its calcareous grassland supported a large diversity of plant species. The site features a Schedule 8 protected plant, thistle broomrape. The land is protected as a nature reserve, and it is also managed as a recreational area. Therefore, its calcareous grass area is fenced off for protection and study, but it also contains a car park, information signs, a children's play area, accessible paths, benches, and dog waste bins.
Farnham Mires is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, to the west of the village of Farnham, North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a spring-fed marshy fen or mire with reeds and sedge, and drier calcareous grassland containing a diverse range of flora. It has a history of poaching and fox hunting, but since the late 19th century, the attention of botanists has been drawn to its large variety of flowering plants. It has received some consideration on this account since 1944, and from 1954 it was designated SSSI status. This site has no facilities, and is not open to the public.
Mar Field Fen is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, north of Masham, North Yorkshire, England, in a rural area known as Marfield. It is situated on land containing woodland carr, fen, spring-fed marshy grassland and drier calcareous grassland, between the River Ure to the east and Marfield Wetland nature reserve to the west. As "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York," it is a protected habitat for a variety of plants, including the common butterwort, a carnivorous plant. There is no public access to this site.
Wet Sleddale Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest within Lake District National Park.
Harbottle Moors is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Northumberland National Park, in Northumberland, England. It is located near the village of Alwinton. The River Coquet forms the northern border of this protected area.
Ham Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Dorset Heathlands Ramsar site, in Dorset, England. It is located near Hamworth and includes a stretch of cliff along the north side of Poole Harbour.
Kingsbury Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) located between Kingsbury and Freasley in Warwickshire, England.
The Flits is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Holywell, six miles west of Hereford in Herefordshire, England. This protected area is also a National Nature Reserve.
Haugh Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Woolhope in Herefordshire, England. The protected area is recognised for its diversity of its insects. The Forestry Commission has provided waymarked butterfly trails in this protected area.
Durtrees Burn Grassland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Northumberland National Park, Northumberland, England. It is located north of the village of Otterburn.
Ramsey's Burn Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Northumberland National Park, Northumberland, England. This protected area is a woodland dominated by alder trees located north of the village of Otterburn. The protected area is within the Otterburn Training Area that is used for military training.
Buttermere Fells is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. The protected area includes many of the hills and mountains between the Buttermere lake valley near the village of Buttermere and the River Derwent valley near the village of Braithwaite. This protected area includes the mountains of Grasmoor, Crag Hill, Causey Pike and Hindscarth. The protected area includes much of the North Western Fells. This protected area contains exceptional examples of montane dwarf shrub heath communities.
Duddon Valley Woodlands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest within the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. This protected area comprises eight large patches of woodland along the valley of the River Duddon. The northernmost part of this protected area is near Seathwaite and southern most at Duddon Bridge. This protected area has an exceptional diversity of moss species and also has a population of the common dormouse.
Eden Gorge is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) including a 5km length of the valley of the River Eden between Armathwaite and Lazonby in Cumbria, England. This protected area spans between the Settle-Carlisle railway track on the western side to Coombs Wood Forestry Commission site on the eastern side. The protected area includes 30m high cliffs where the River Eden has eroded through New Red Sandstone. The semi-natural woodland is apparently a remnant of the ancient Inglewood forest.
Farleton Knott is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Cumbria, England. It is located 6km west of Kirkby Lonsdale, near Farleton. This protected area includes an exceptional limestone pavement on the top of a hill called Farleton Fell. Farleton Knott SSSI includes within its boundary Newbiggin Crags, Holme Park Fell and a National Nature Reserve called Clawthorpe Fell.
Lodore-Troutdale Woods is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within the Lake District National Park. It is located 4km south of Keswick and 1km east of Grange in the valley of the River Derwent within Borrowdale. The woodland here has an exceptional diversity of moss species.
Stonethwaite Woods is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It consists of two distinct patches located in Borrowdale on either side of Stonethwaite Beck, and either side of the village of Stonethwaite, 1km south of Rosthwaite. This woodland has an exceptional diversity of moss species.