Hay Head Quarry
Encyclopedia
Hay Head Quarry is a 5.8 hectare (14.3 acre) geological site of Special Scientific Interest
in the West Midlands
. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
and is currently managed by the Country Trust
.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
in the West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom and was implemented to comply with the Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds...
and is currently managed by the Country Trust
Country Trust
The Country Trust is a British environmental education charity.It manages a number of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands....
.