List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire
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The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

 Area of Search
Area of Search
Areas of Search are geographical areas used in the selection of Sites of Special Scientific Interest. In England these are largely based on the 1974–1996 administrative counties...

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

List of sites

  • Allexton Wood
  • Ashby Canal
  • Bardon Hill
    Bardon Hill
    Bardon Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Bardon near Coalville, Leicestershire. It the highest point in Leicestershire and the National Forest, above sea level. The hill has two very distinct faces – one half preserved as a site of special scientific interest , the other removed by Bardon Hill...

  • Bardon Hill Quarry
  • Barrow Gravel Pits
  • Beacon Hill
    Beacon Hill
    Beacon Hill is a name shared by many hills, suburbs, villages and other places around the world. Many are so called because they were historically the site of a warning beacon. Others are named after other places of the same name.-In the United Kingdom:...

    , Hangingstone And Outwoods
  • Benscliffe Wood
  • Blackbrook Reservoir
    Blackbrook Reservoir
    Blackbrook Reservoir is a large body of water near Shepshed, Leicestershire, in England. The reservoir was constructed in 1796 in order to feed the Charnwood Forest Canal, which has long since vanished. The first dam constructed was an earthworks one, and this failed on February 20 of 1799...

  • Bloody Oaks Quarry
  • Botcheston Bog
  • Bradgate Park
    Bradgate Park
    Bradgate Park is a public park in Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, England, just northwest of Leicester. It covers 850 acres . The park lies between the villages of Newtown Linford, Anstey, Cropston, Woodhouse Eaves and Swithland. The River Lin runs through the park, flowing into Cropston...

     And Cropston Reservoir
    Cropston Reservoir
    Cropston Reservoir lies in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, England. The dam and associated water works are in Cropston, while the bulk of the reservoir is in the neighbouring Newtown Linford parish. It was opened in May 1871 in a corner of Bradgate Park, a large expanse of open land just...

  • Breedon Cloud Wood And Quarry
  • Breedon Hill
  • Briery Wood Heronry, Belvoir
  • Buddon Wood And Swithland Reservoir
    Swithland Reservoir
    Swithland Reservoir is a reservoir in the English county of Leicestershire. It is north-east of the village of Swithland from which it takes its name, north-west of Rothley and approximately 133 metres south-west of Mountsorrel Quarry. The dam is at the north end and is crossed by Kinchley Lane...

  • Burbage Wood And Aston Firs
  • Burley And Rushpit Woods
  • Cave's Inn Pits
  • Charnwood Lodge
  • Chater Valley
  • Cliffe Hill Quarry
  • Clipsham Old Quarry And Pickworth Great Wood
  • Coalville Meadows
    Coalville Meadows
    Coalville Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest situated in Coalville, North West Leicestershire, England. It one of the best examples of neutral grassland that has developed on the somewhat leached clay soils of Leicestershire and is representative of such grassland in Central and...

  • Cotes Grassland
  • Cribb's Lodge Meadows
  • Croft And Huncote Quarry
  • Croft Hill
  • Croft Pasture
  • Croxton Park
  • Debdale Meadow, Muston
  • Dimminsdale
  • Donington Park
    Donington Hall
    Donington Hall is a house and residual estate in Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, located close to the city of Derby. The Hall serves as the headquarters for airline BMI....

  • East Wood, Great Casterton
  • Empingham Marshy Meadows
  • Enderby Warren Quarry
  • Eyebrook Reservoir
    Eyebrook Reservoir
    Eyebrook Reservoir is a reservoir in the East Midlands of England. It straddles the border of Leicestershire and Rutland . It is located about 6 km northwest of Corby in Northamptonshire. Nearby villages are Stoke Dry, to the north, and Caldecott, to the south and near the dam.The reservoir...

  • Eye Brook Valley Woods
    Eye Brook
    The Eye Brook is a river in the East Midlands of England, a tributary of the River Welland. It is around long.Rising near Tilton on the Hill or Skeffington in Leicestershire, it flows east. Near where it crosses the A47, it starts to form the county boundary between Leicestershire and Rutland, and...

  • Frisby Marsh
  • Gipsy Lane Pit
  • Grace Dieu And High Sharpley
  • Grantham Canal
  • Great Bowden Borrowpit
  • Greetham Meadows
  • Groby Pool And Woods
  • Harby Hill Wood
  • Holwell Mouth
  • Kendall's Meadow
  • Ketton Quarries
  • Kilby - Foxton Canal
    Foxton Locks
    Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 5 km west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton....

  • King Lud's Entrenchments And The Drift
  • Launde Big Wood
  • Leighfield Forest
  • Lockington Marshes
  • Loughborough Meadows
  • Lount Meadows
  • Luffenham Heath Golf Course
  • Main Quarry, Mountsorrel
  • Misterton Marshes
  • Muston Meadows
  • Narborough Bog
  • Newell Wood
  • Newhurst Quarry
  • Newton Burgoland Marshes
  • North Luffenham Quarry
  • Oakley Wood
  • One Barrow Plantation
  • Owston Woods
  • Pasture And Asplin Woods
  • Prior's Coppice
  • River Eye
  • River Mease
    River Mease
    The River Mease is a lowland clay river in the Midlands area of England. It flows through the counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire and forms the administrative border between these counties for parts of its length....

  • Roecliffe Manor Lawns
    Roecliffe Manor Lawns
    Roecliffe Manor Lawns is a 1.28 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire, notified in 2001.Its biological importance is due to its assemblage of rare fungi.-Source:*...

  • Rutland Water
    Rutland Water
    Rutland Water is Anglian Water's drinking water reservoir in the county of Rutland, England, just east of the county town Oakham. It was known as Empingham Reservoir during its construction and until its official opening in 1976. The centre of its dam is at British national grid reference...

  • Saddington Reservoir
  • Seaton Meadows
  • Shacklewell Hollow
  • Sheepy Fields
  • Sheet Hedges Wood
    Sheet Hedges Wood
    Sheet Hedges Wood is approx. north of Groby, in Leicestershire.The site is made up of two areas of woodland and an agricultural field with public access, extending .The woodland block is adjacent to the road includes a car park and access trails....

  • Shepshed Cutting
  • Sproxton Quarry
  • Stanford Park
  • Stonesby Quarry
  • Swithland Wood
    Swithland Wood
    Swithland Wood is a public woodland in Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire. Although close to the village of Swithland, it is almost entirely within the parish of Newtown Linford. It is just north of Bradgate Park and also near Woodhouse Eaves and Cropston...

     And The Brand
  • Terrace Hills Pasture
  • Tickencote Marsh
  • Tilton Cutting
  • Tolethorpe Road Verges
  • Twenty Acre Piece
  • Ulverscroft Valley
  • Wing Water Treatment Works
  • Wymondham Rough
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