National nature reserves in England
National nature reserves in England are designated by
National Trust, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
.
There are 229 NNRs in England covering 939 square kilometres (363 square miles).[1] Often they contain rare species or nationally important species of plants, insects, butterflies, birds, mammals, etc.
Spotlight NNRs
Natural England has selected 35 as spotlight reserves:[2]
- Ainsdale Sand Dunes NNR, Merseyside
- Aston Rowant NNR, Oxfordshire
- Barnack Hills & Holes NNR, Cambridgeshire
- Castle Eden Dene, County Durham
- Derbyshire Dales NNR, Derbyshire
- Duncombe Park NNR, North Yorkshire
- Durham Coast, County Durham
- East Dartmoor Woods and Heaths NNR, Devon
- Farne Islands NNR, Northumberland
- Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses NNR, Shropshire/Wales
- Finglandrigg Woods NNR, Cumbria
- Gait Barrows NNR, Lancashire
- Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire
- Golitha Falls NNR, Cornwall
- Norfolk
- Ingleborough NNR, North Yorkshire
- Kingley Vale NNR, West Sussex
- Lindisfarne, Northumberland
- Lower Derwent Valley NNR, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Moor House-Upper Teesdale, Cumbria & County Durham
- North Meadow, Cricklade NNR, Wiltshire
- Old Winchester Hill NNR, Hampshire
- Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR, Lincolnshire
- Shapwick Heath NNR, Somerset
- Slapton Ley NNR, Devon
- Stiperstones NNR, Shropshire
- Stodmarsh NNR, Kent
- Studland and Godlingston Heath NNR, Dorset
- Teesmouth NNR, Teesside
- The Lizard NNR, Cornwall
- Suffolk Coast NNR, Suffolk
- Thursley NNR, Surrey
- Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire
- Wye NNR, Kent
For a full list of English NNRs, see List of national nature reserves in England
See also
- Nature reserve
- National nature reserve (United Kingdom)
- Nature reserves in Northern Ireland
- National nature reserve (Scotland)
- National nature reserves in Wales
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References
- ^ "All NNR condition summary". Natural England. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
- ^ Natural England Archived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Spotlight Reserves
External links
- Interactive map of designations in England from sketchmap.co.uk, including National Nature Reserves boundaries (select 'Nature Reserves' in UK map layers)
- "England's National Nature Reserves by region". Natural England.