Blea Tarn from Lingmoor Fell
The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Cumbria , England , United Kingdom . 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]
As of July 2012 there were 278 SSSIs within Cumbria. Of these, 70 are listed purely for their geological interest and 170 for their biological interest. A further 38 have both geological and biological interest.[ 2]
The county includes the whole of the Lake District National Park , as well as three Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty : the Solway Coast , part of Arnside and Silverdale , and part of the North Pennines .
For SSSIs in other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search .
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 .[ 280]
C Link to maps using the Nature on the Map service provided by Natural England .
^ "Notification of SSSIs" . Natural England . Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2007 .
^ Natural England SSSI County Level Reports and Statistics Accessed 27 August 2012
^ Alston Shingle Banks
^ Annaside
^ Annaside And Gutterby Banks
^ Appleby Fells
^ Argill Woods And Pastures
^ Armboth Fells
^ Arnside Knott
^ Ash Fell
^ Ash Fell Edge
^ Ashgill Quarry
^ Augill Valley Pasture
^ Backside Beck And Spen Gill
^ Barf And Thornthwaite
^ Barker Scar
^ Bassenthwaite Lake
^ Baysbrown Wood
^ Beckfoot Quarry
^ Beech Hill Wood
^ Belah Woods And Pastures
^ Biglands Bog
^ Birk Fell
^ Birk Fell Hawse Mine
^ Birkett Hill And High Out Wood
^ Birky Cleugh
^ Black Moss
^ Black Snib
^ Blackdike Bog
^ Blagill Mine
^ Blea Tarn Archived 2012-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ Blea Water
^ Blelham Tarn & Bog
^ Bolton Fell and Walton Mosses
^ Borrow Beck Meadows
^ Bothel Craggs Quarry
^ Bowber Head And Piper Hole Meadows
^ Bowness Common
^ Bowness Knott
^ Braithwaite Moss
^ Bramcrag Quarry & Wanthwaite Mine
^ Brantrake Moss & Devoke Water
^ Brathay Quarries
^ Bretherdale Meadows
^ Broad Dales
^ Brothers Water
^ Browgill & Stockdale Becks
^ Buckbarrow Beck
^ Burns Beck Moss
^ Burrells Quarry
^ Butterburn Flow
^ Buttermere
^ Buttermere Fells
^ Butterwick Meadows
^ Cairnbridge Sand Pit
^ Castlehead Wood
^ Caudbeck Flow
^ Cautley Thwaite Meadows And Ecker Secker Beck
^ Chapel Bridge Meadows
^ Claife Tarns And Mires
^ Cliburn Moss
^ Clints Crags, Blindcrake
^ Clints Quarry
^ Clints Quarry, Moota
^ Comb Beck
^ Combe Scar
^ Coniston Mines And Quarries
^ Cotehill Pastures And Ponds
^ Cowraik Quarry
^ Cropple How Mire
^ Crosby Gill
^ Crosby Ravensworth Fell
^ Cumpston Hill
^ Cumwhitton Moss
^ Deepdale Meadows
^ Dodgson Wood
^ Drigg Coast
^ Drigg Holme
^ Drumburgh Moss
^ Duddon Estuary
^ Duddon Mosses
^ Duddon Valley Woodlands
^ Dungeon Ghyll
^ Eden Gorge
^ Ellery Sike
^ Elliscales Quarry
^ Elterwater
^ Ennerdale Archived 2014-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ Esthwaite Water
^ Ewefell Mire
^ Eycott Hill
^ Far Arnside
^ Farleton Knott
^ Finglandrigg Woods
^ Florence Mine
^ Force Crag Mine
^ Foulshaw Moss
^ Gelt Woods
^ Geltsdale & Glendue Fells
^ George Gill
^ Gill Beck
^ Glasson Moss
^ Glencoyne Wood
^ Gowbarrow Park
^ Gowk Bank
^ Great Asby Scar
^ Great Blencow Meadows And Fen
^ Great Wood
^ Greendale Mires
^ Gribbs Meadows
^ Haggs Bank
^ Haile Great Wood
^ Hale Moss
^ Hale Moss Caves
^ Hallinhag Wood
^ Hallsenna Moor
^ Harthwaite Sike
^ Helbeck Wood
^ Hell Gill
^ Helvellyn & Fairfield
^ High Leys
^ High Lickbarrow Mires And Pastures
^ Hollin Hill
^ Hollows Farm Section
^ Honister Crag
^ Humphrey Head
^ Hutton Roof Crags
^ Iron Pit Spring Quarry
^ Irthing Gorge
^ Janny Wood Section
^ Jenny Dam
^ Jockie'S Syke
^ Johnny Wood
^ Jumb Quarry
^ Keisley Quarry
^ Kershope Bridge
^ Kielder Mires
^ Kingwater
^ Kirkby Moor
^ Knipe Tarn
^ Lamonby Verges And Fields
^ Langdale Pikes
^ Langdale, Bowderdale And Carlin Gill
^ Lazonby Fell
^ Leck Beck Head Catchment Area
^ Little Asby Inrakes And Outrakes
^ Little Langdale Tarn
^ Little Mell Fell Quarry
^ Lodore - Troutdale Woods
^ Longsleddale Woods
^ Loughrigg Fell Flushes
^ Low Beckside Meadow
^ Low Church Moss
^ Low Wood
^ Low Wray Bay
^ Ludderburn And Candlestick Mires
^ Lyne Woods
^ Mallerstang-Swaledale Head
^ Marble Quarry And Hale Fell
^ Maryport Harbour
^ Meathop Moss
^ Meathop Woods And Quarry
^ Melmerby Road Section
^ Middlebarrow
^ Middlesceugh Woods And Pastures
^ Milkingstead Wood
^ Millfield Verges
^ Miterdale Head Wood
^ Mollen Woods
^ Moorhouse And Cross Fell
^ Moorthwaite Moss
^ Morecambe Bay
^ Mousegill Beck
^ Mungrisdale Mires
^ Murthwaite Park
^ Nab Gill Mine
^ Naddle Forest
^ Newton Reigny Moss
^ Nichols Moss
^ Oakshaw Ford
^ Orton Moss
^ Orton Pastures
^ Oulton Moss
^ Outley Mosses
^ Over Water
^ Penton Linns
^ Pets Quarry
^ Pillar And Ennerdale Fells
^ Pinskey Gill
^ Pooley Bridge Section
^ Pus Gill
^ Raisbeck Meadows
^ Ray And Crinkle Crags
^ River Calder Section
^ River Derwent And Tributaries
^ River Eden And Tributaries
^ River Ehen (Ennerdale Water To Keekle Confluence)
^ River Kent And Tributaries
^ River Nent At Blagill
^ River Rawthey, Wandale Beck And Sally Beck
^ River South Tyne And Tynebottom Mine
^ Rosthwaite Fell
^ Roudsea Wood & Mosses
^ Rusland Valley Mosses
^ Salta Moss
^ Sandybeck Meadow
^ Scafell Pikes
^ Scaleby Moss
^ Scales Wood
^ Scandal Beck And Stone Gill
^ Scandal Beck, Brunt Hill
^ Scawgill And Blaze Beck
^ Scout And Cunswick Scars
^ Sea Wood
^ Seathwaite Copper Mines
^ Seatoller Wood, Sourmilk Gill & Seathwaite Graphite Mine
^ Shap Fell Road Cuttings
^ Shap Fells
^ Shaw Meadow & Sea Pasture
^ Short Gill Cave System
^ Siddick Pond
^ Side Pike Archived 2012-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ Silloth Dunes And Mawbray Bank
^ Silver Tarn, Hollas And Harnsey Mosses
^ Skelghyll Beck
^ Skelsmergh Tarn
^ Skelton Pasture
^ Skelwith Hill
^ Skiddaw Group
^ Smallcleugh Mine
^ Smardale Gill
^ South Walney And Piel Channel Flats Archived 2014-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ Spadeadam Mires
^ St. Bees Head
^ Stagmire Moss
^ Stanley Ghyll
^ Stile End
^ Stonethwaite Woods
^ Subberthwaite, Blawith And Torver Low Commons
^ Sunbiggin Tarn & Moors And Little Asby Scar
^ Swindale Beck
^ Swindale Meadows
^ Swindale Wood
^ Tarn Hows
^ Tarn Moss
^ Tebay Road Cuttings
^ Temple Sowerby Moss
^ The Clouds
^ The Ings
^ Thirlmere Woods
^ Thornhill Moss & Meadows
^ Thornsgill Beck, Mosedale Beck And Wolf Crags
^ Throstle Shaw And Sandbeds Fan
^ Thurstonfield Lough
^ Tilberthwaite Gill
^ Town End Meadows, Little Asby
^ Troutbeck
^ Udford Low Moss
^ Underlaid Wood
^ Unity Bog
^ Upper Dentdale Cave System
^ Upper Solway Flats & Marshes
^ Waberthwaite Quarry
^ Wan Fell
^ Wart Barrow
^ Wasdale Screes
^ Wast Water
^ Water Crag
^ Wedholme Flow
^ Wet Sleddale Meadows
^ Whitbarrow
^ Whitberry Burn
^ White Moss, Crosbymoor
^ Whitesike Mine And Flinty Fell
^ Wilson Place Meadows
^ Winster Wetlands
^ Yeathouse Quarry
^ Yewbarrow Woods
^ Yewdale Beck
^ "Guide to National Grid" . Ordnance Survey . Archived from the original on 27 October 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2007 .
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