Natural England - Example sites in the SSSI series
Example sites in the SSSI series
SSSI sites of geological importance
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Bardon Quarry SSSI, Leicestershire
Active quarry, exposure site, finite site for mineralisation.
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Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI, Cornwall
Coastal cliffs and foreshore, exposure site.
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Claverley Road Cutting SSSI, Shropshire
Road cutting, exposure site.
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Coastal cliffs and foreshore, finite site, mineral collecting.
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Cross Hands Quarry SSSI, Warwickshire
Disused quarry, exposure site, fossil collecting, landfill site.
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Grinshill Quarry SSSI, Shropshire
Active quarry, exposure site, fossil collecting.
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Hope's Nose SSSI, Torquay, Devon
Coastal cliffs and foreshore, exposure site, finite site for mineralisation, mineral collecting.
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Kilmersdon Road Quarry SSSI, Somerset
Disused quarry, exposure site.
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Kirtlington Quarry SSSI, Oxfordshire
Disused quarry, exposure site, Local Nature Reserve.
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Lindisfarne SSSI, Northumberland
Coastal cliffs and foreshore, exposure site, integrity site for geomorphology, finite buried interest site for quaternary sediments, National Nature Reserve.
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Old Town Railway Cutting SSSI, Swindon, Wiltshire
Railway cutting, exposure site.
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Porthleven Cliffs East SSSI, Cornwall
Coastal cliffs, exposure site, coastal defences.
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Purfleet Chalk Pits SSSI, Essex
Disused quarry, exposure site.
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Static (fossil) geomorphological site, integrity site.
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Upland outcrop, underground mines, mine dumps, exposure site, integrity site for geomorphology, finite site for mineralisation.
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Tideswell Dale, the Wye Valley SSSI, Derbyshire
Disused quarry, exposure site and finite buried interest site.
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Tilton Cutting SSSI, Leicestershire
Railway cutting, exposure site, finite site for certain fossil interests.
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Coastal cliffs and foreshore, exposure site, fossil collecting.
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Wren's Nest NNR, Dudley, West Midlands
Disused quarries, inland outcrop, exposure site, finite site for certain features, National Nature Reserve.
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Finite site, fossil collecting.
