List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria

This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

. For other counties, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search.

Alston Shingle Banks
Annaside
Annaside
Annaside is a village in Cumbria, England....
Annaside and Gutterby Banks
Appleby Fells
Appleby Fells
Appleby Fells is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Eden district of Cumbria, England....
Argill Woods and Pastures
Armboth Fells
Arnside Knott
Arnside Knott
Arnside Knott is a hill with a summit elevation of , near Arnside, Cumbria, England. Although it is in South Lakeland district it is not in the Lake District National Park, lying south of the River Kent which forms the south eastern boundary of the national park...
Ash Fell
Ash Fell Edge
Ashgill Quarry
Augill Valley Pasture
Backside Beck and Spen Gill
Barf and Thornthwaite
Barker Scar
Bassenthwaite Lake
Bassenthwaite Lake
Bassenthwaite Lake is one of the largest water bodies in the English Lake District. It is long and narrow, approximately long and wide, but is also extremely shallow, with a maximum depth of about ....
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 moss
Black moss may refer to:*Wila , a lichen eaten by First Peoples in North America;*Fat choy , a terrestrial cyanobacteria eaten in Chinese cuisine;...
Black Snib
Blackdike Bog
Blagill Mine

Blea Tarn
Blea Water
Blea Water
Blea Water is a tarn or corrie lake which occupies a glacially excavated hollow immediately to the east of High Street in the Lake District, England. At just over 200ft deep it is the deepest tarn in the Lake District....
Blelham Tarn & Bog
Bolton Fell Moss
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
Brothers Water
Brothers Water is in the Hartsop valley and is a small lake in the eastern region of the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. Once called Broad Water, it lies at the northern end of Kirkstone Pass, affording picturesque views on the descent towards Patterdale.Dorothy Wordsworth, having...
Browgill & Stockdale Becks
Buckbarrow Beck
Burns Beck Moss
Burrells Quarry
Butterburn Flow
Buttermere
Buttermere
Buttermere is a lake in the English Lake District in North West England. The adjacent village of Buttermere takes its name from the lake. Historically within the former county of Cumberland, the lake is now within the county of Cumbria. It is owned by the National Trust, forming part of their...
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
Cliburn Moss
Cliburn Moss is a National Nature Reserve located northwest of the village is a of Cliburn, in the county of Cumbria, England. It contains a mixture of bog and heath, produced by a hollow in the glacial valley, and by the human activity of peat cutting....
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 Estuary
The Duddon Estuary is the sandy, gritty estuary of the River Duddon that lies between Morecambe Bay and the west Cumbrian coast.It opens into the Irish Sea to the north of the Furness peninsula; Walney Island forming part of its southern edge...
Duddon Mosses
Duddon Valley Woodlands
Dungeon Ghyll
Eden Gorge
Ellery Sike
Elliscales Quarry

Elterwater
Elterwater
Elter Water is a small lake that lies half a mile south-east of the village of Elterwater. Both are situated in the valley of Great Langdale in the English Lake District...

Ennerdale
Ennerdale Water
Ennerdale Water is the most westerly lake in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is a glacial lake, with a maximum depth of 45 metres , and at 700 to 1,500 metres wide and 3.9 kilometres is one of the smallest lakes in the area...
Esthwaite Water
Esthwaite Water
Esthwaite Water is one of the smaller and lesser known lakes in the Lake District national park in northern England. It is situated between the much larger lakes of Windermere and Coniston Water, in the traditional county of Lancashire; since 1974 in the administrative county of Cumbria...
Ewefell Mire
Eycott Hill
Far Arnside
Far Arnside
Far Arnside is a hamlet in the South Lakeland district, in the county of Cumbria, England.- Location :It is located near the large villages of Arnside and Silverdale. It is about half a mile away from the Cumbria/Lancashire boundary....
Farleton Knott
Finglandrigg Woods
Florence Mine
Force Crag Mine
Foulshaw Moss
Gelt Woods
Geltsdale & Glendue Fells
George Gill
George Gill
George Lloyd Gill was a professional baseball pitcher. He played three seasons in Major League Baseball, for the Detroit Tigers from 1937–39 and for the St. Louis Browns in 1939....
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 Leys
High Leys is located to the south east of Rowrah in Cumbria , along the C2C cycle route prior to Sheriffs Gate.The status of National Nature Reserve was awarded to High Leys due to its meadow status and the traditional hay-making and grazing methods employed during the land's working lifetime....
High Lickbarrow Mires and Pastures
Hollin Hill
Hollows Farm Section
Honister Crag
Humphrey Head
Humphrey Head
Humphrey Head is a limestone outcrop situated between the villages of Allithwaite and Flookburgh. It is whale back-shaped and accessible for walkers, giving views over Morecambe Bay to Lancaster, Morecambe, Heysham and over the Leven estuary to Ulverston. There is an Ordnance Survey trig point at...
Hutton Roof Crags
Hutton Roof Crags
Hutton Roof Crags is a hill in south-eastern Cumbria in north-west England, located near to the village of Hutton Roof. It has extensive areas of limestone pavement as well as grassland and woodland...
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
Kirkby Moor
Kirkby Moor is a poorly defined moorland area in southern Cumbria, England, named after the village of Kirkby-in-Furness, but stretching both sides of the A5092 road, and thus spanning the border of the Lake District National Park...
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
Moorhouse and Cross Fell
Moorhouse and Cross Fell is a Site of Special Scientific Interest covering an extensive area of moorland in the Wear Valley district of west County Durham and the Eden district of Cumbria, England. It is contiguous with Upper Teesdale SSSI to the east and Appleby Fells SSSI to the south...
Moorthwaite Moss
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay is a large bay in northwest England, nearly due east of the Isle of Man and just to the south of the Lake District National Park. It is the largest expanse of intertidal mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom, covering a total area of 310 km².-Natural features:The rivers Leven,...
Mousegill Beck
Mungrisdale Mires
Murthwaite Park
Nab Gill Mine
Naddle Forest
Newton Reigny Moss
Nichols Moss
Oakshaw Ford
Orton Moss
Orton Moss
Orton Moss is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located west of the City of Carlisle in northwest England.Orton Moss is a former raised mire and divided into strips and fields which would traditionally have been used for peat cutting and grazing...
Orton Pastures
Oulton Moss
Outley Mosses
Over Water
Over Water
Over Water is a small lake or tarn in the north of the English Lake District near the village of Longlands. Although only a fifteen-minute drive from Keswick it is quieter than many of the better-known lakes. Binsey, Great Cockup and Longlands Fell overlook the lake.Over Water was a small natural...
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 Eden, Cumbria
The River Eden is a river that flows through Cumbria, England on its way to the Solway Firth.-Course of river:The Eden rises in Black Fell Moss, Mallerstang, on the high ground between High Seat, Yorkshire Dales and Hugh Seat. Here it forms the boundary between the counties of Cumbria and North...
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
Rosthwaite Fell
Rosthwaite Fell is a fell in the English Lake District. It is situated some due south of Keswick and south of the village of Rosthwaite in Borrowdale.Rosthwaite Fell also has loose connections to the Scafell group of fells...
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
Silloth Dunes and Mawbray Bank
Silver Tarn, Hollas and Harnsey Mosses
Skelghyll Beck
Skelsmergh Tarn
Skelton Pasture
Skelwith Hill
Skiddaw Group
Skiddaw Group
For the Skiddaw group of hills, see Skiddaw GroupThe Skiddaw Group is a group of sedimentary rock formations named after the mountain Skiddaw in the English Lake District. The rocks are Ordovician in age. They are largely mudstones and siltstones with subordinate wacke-type sandstones...
Smallcleugh Mine
Smardale Gill
South Walney and Piel Channel Flats
Spadeadam Mires
St. Bees Head
St. Bees Head
St Bees Head is a headland on the North West coast of the English county of Cumbria and is named after the nearby village of St Bees.It lies on the Cumbria Coastal Way and WainwrightCoast to Coast long-distance footpaths, it is the only stretch of Heritage Coast on the English coastline between the...

Stagmire Moss
Stanley Ghyll
Stile End
Stonethwaite Woods
Subberthwaite, Blawith and Torver
Torver
Torver is a hamlet and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria south west of the village of Coniston and west of Coniston Water....

Low Commons
Sunbiggin Tarn & Moors and Little Asby Scar
Swindale Beck
Swindale Meadows
Swindale Wood

Tarn Hows
Tarn Hows
Tarn Hows is an area of the Lake District National Park, containing a picturesque tarn, approximately northeast of Coniston and about northwest of Hawkshead...
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
Thurstonfield Lough
Thurstonfield Lough is the largest, species-rich area of open water in the lowlands of north and east Cumbria, England. Within this area it supports some of the best examples of a range of vegetation types: from the submerged aquatics through an extensive fringing marsh to good wet sallow and...
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
Walton Moss
Wan Fell
Wart Barrow
Wasdale Screes
Wast Water
Wast Water
Wast Water or Wastwater is a lake located in Wasdale, a valley in the western part of the Lake District National Park, England. The lake is approximately 4.6 kilometres long and 600 metres wide. It is the deepest lake in England at 79 metres , and is owned by the National Trust...
Water Crag
Wedholme Flow
Wet Sleddale Meadows
Whitbarrow
Whitbarrow
Whitbarrow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserve in Cumbria, and forms part of the Morecambe Bay Pavements Special Area of Conservation due to its supporting some of the best European examples of natural limestone habitats...
Whitberry Burn
White Moss, Crosbymoor
Whitesike Mine and Flinty Fell
Wilson Place Meadows
Winster Wetlands
Yeathouse Quarry
Yewbarrow Woods
Yewdale Beck

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