Fishburn Grassland

Protected area in County Durham, England

Fishburn Grassland

Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location| MAGiC MaP
Nearest town| Sedgefield
Coordinates| 54°41′22″N 1°26′21″W﻿ / ﻿54.68944°N 1.43917°W﻿ / 54.68944; -1.43917
Area| 1.12 ha (2.8 acres)
Established| 1992
Governing body| Natural England
Website| Fishburn Grassland SSSI

Fishburn Grassland is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham, England. It lies between the villages of Fishburn and Trimdon, just north of the former.

The site consists of a small area of species-rich magnesian limestone grassland, a vegetation type that is rare nationally and mainly restricted to County Durham and Tyne and Wear. There are two distinct plant communities, the larger of which, dominated by blue moor-grass, Sesleria albicans, and small scabious, Scabiosa columbaria, is known only from east Durham. The other community, dominated by upright brome, Bromus erectus, is common on limestone in southern England but is at its northern limit in Durham, where there are no other protected sites. [1]

## References

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1. ^ "Fishburn Grassland : Reasons for SSSI status" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham

* Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods
* Baldersdale Woodlands
* Bishop Middleham Quarry
* Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells
* Botany Hill
* Bowes Moor
* Bowlees and Friar House Meadows
* Brasside Pond
* Brignall Banks
* Burnhope Burn
* Butterby Oxbow
* Cassop Vale
* Castle Eden Dene
* Causey Bank Mires
* Charity Land
* Close House Mine
* Cornriggs Meadows
* Cotherstone Moor
* Crag Gill
* Crime Rigg and Sherburn Hill Quarries
* Dabble Bank
* Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
* Durham Coast
* Fairy Holes Cave
* Far High House Meadows
* Fishburn Grassland
* Foster's Hush
* Frog Wood Bog
* God's Bridge
* Grains o' th' Beck Meadows
* Green Croft and Langley Moor
* Greenfoot Quarry
* Hannah's Meadows
* Hawthorn Dene
* Hawthorn Quarry
* Hell Kettles
* Hesledon Moor East
* Hesledon Moor West
* Hexhamshire Moors
* Hisehope Burn Valley
* Hulam Fen
* Hunder Beck Juniper
* Kilmond Scar
* Low Redford Meadows
* Lune Forest
* Mere Beck Meadows
* Middle Crossthwaite
* Middle Side and Stonygill Meadows
* Middleton Quarry
* Middridge Quarry
* Moorhouse and Cross Fell
* Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor
* Neasham Fen
* Newton Ketton Meadow
* Old Moss Lead Vein
* Park End Wood
* Pig Hill
* Pike Whin Bog
* Pittington Hill
* Pow Hill Bog
* Quarrington Hill Grasslands
* Railway Stell West
* Raisby Hill Grassland
* Raisby Hill Quarry
* Redcar Field
* Rigg Farm and Stake Hill Meadows
* Rogerley Quarry
* Sherburn Hill
* Shipley and Great Woods
* Sleightholme Beck Gorge – The Troughs
* Slit Woods
* Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon
* Teesdale Allotments
* The Bottoms
* The Carrs
* Thrislington Plantation
* Town Kelloe Bank
* Trimdon Limestone Quarry
* Tuthill Quarry
* Upper Teesdale
* Waldridge Fell
* West Newlandside Meadows
* West Park Meadows
* West Rigg Open Cutting
* Westernhope Burn Wood
* Wingate Quarry
* Witton-le-Wear
* Yoden Village Quarry

Neighbouring areas
Cleveland
Northumberland
Tyne and Wear

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