SSSIs on MOD Land - England
Interest WITHIN
Sum of Overlap Area
Country MOD Site SSSI Name Special Protection Area Special Area of Conservation Ramsar Site Total
ENGLAND ALTCAR TRAINING CAMP Sefton Coast RIBBLE & ALT ESTUARIES SEFTON COAST RIBBLE & ALT ESTUARIES 122.53 ATTURM INSTOW Taw-Torridge Estuary 5.01 BEACHLEY BARRACKS RIVER WYE 24.80 Severn Estuary SEVERN ESTUARY SEVERN ESTUARY SEVERN ESTUARY 28.93 BLANDFORD Blandford Camp 28.69
CANNOCK CHASE: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY ARMY CADET FORCE WEEKEND TRAINING CENTRE CANNOCK CHASE CANNOCK CHASE 7.66 CHILMARK Chilmark Quarries CHILMARK QUARRIES 2.62 BATH & BRADFORD ON CORSHAM Box Mine AVON BATS 0.22 DCSA RADIO PENHALE SANDS Penhale Dunes PENHALE DUNES 0.87
DFG WEST MOORS Holt And West Moors Heaths DORSET HEATHLANDS DORSET HEATHS DORSET HEATHLANDS 112.25 TAMAR ESTUARIES PLYMOUTH SOUND & DMC ERNESETTLE Tamar - Tavy Estuary COMPLEX ESTUARIES 154.53 DMC GOSPORT Portsmouth Harbour PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR 2.24 DSTL BINCLEAVES DSTL BINCLEAVES Portland Harbour Shore 1.37 DSTL PORTON DOWN Porton Down PORTON DOWN SALISBURY PLAIN 1561.97 DTE E: BARNHAM Thetford Heaths BRECKLAND BRECKLAND 153.83 DTE E: COLCHESTER Roman River 270.53
DTE E: COLCHESTER / FINGRINGHOE Colne Estuary COLNE ESTUARY ESSEX ESTUARIES COLNE ESTUARY 528.74 Roman River 2.48
SALTFLEETBY - DTE E: DONNA NOOK AIR WEAPONS THEDDLETHORPE DUNES RANGE Humber Estuary HUMBER ESTUARY & GIBRALTAR POINT Humber Estuary 895.05 DTE E: DUKERIES Birklands And Bilhaugh BIRKLANDS & BILHAUGH 5.54 201.13 Birklands West And Ollerton Corner 68.24 THE WASH & NORTH DTE E: HOLBEACH AIR WEAPONS NORFOLK COAST RANGE The Wash THE WASH (MARINE) THE WASH 764.10 DTE E: HONINGTON / THETFORD RIFLE RANGE Breckland Forest BRECKLAND 9.74 DTE E: STANFORD Breckland Farmland BRECKLAND 1493.01
Breckland Forest BRECKLAND 452.69 Bridgham & Brettenham Heaths BRECKLAND BRECKLAND 200.85 Grime's Graves BRECKLAND BRECKLAND 27.99 Hooks Well Meadows, Gt Cressingham 4.84 Old Bodney Camp BRECKLAND 32.58 Stanford Training Area BRECKLAND BRECKLAND 4657.39 0.49 THE WASH & NORTH DTE E: WAINFLEET AIR WEAPONS NORFOLK COAST RANGE The Wash THE WASH (MARINE) THE WASH 3847.21 DTE E: YARDLEY CHASE Yardley Chase 157.08 THURSLEY, ASH, DTE HC: ASH Ash To Brookwood Heaths THAMES BASIN HEATHS PIRBRIGHT & CHOBHAM 1408.40 Basingstoke Canal 9.27 Broadmoor To Bagshot DTE HC: BAROSSA (SANDHURST) Woods And Heaths THAMES BASIN HEATHS 576.20 Broxhead And Kingsley DTE HC: BORDON Commons WEALDEN HEATHS 62.68 DTE HC: BOURLEY / ALDERSHOT TRAINING AREA Basingstoke Canal 15.55 Bourley And Long Valley THAMES BASIN HEATHS 821.98 Heath Brow THAMES BASIN HEATHS 1.89 Bramshott And Ludshott DTE HC: BRAMSHOTT Commons WEALDEN HEATHS 102.19 DTE HC: BROWNDOWN Browndown 61.39 DTE HC: CHILCOMB RANGE (BARTON STACEY) River Test 8.16 Foxlease And Ancells DTE HC: HAWLEY / MINLEY Meadows 56.86 Castle Bottom To Yateley And Hawley Commons THAMES BASIN HEATHS 331.28 Thursley, Hankley And THURSLEY, ASH, THURSLEY & OCKLEY DTE HC: LONGMOOR Frensham Commons WEALDEN HEATHS PIRBRIGHT & CHOBHAM BOG 630.42 Woolmer Forest WEALDEN HEATHS WOOLMER FOREST 1076.33 DTE HC: OTMOOR Otmoor 182.67 Colony Bog And Bagshot THURSLEY, ASH, DTE HC: PIRBRIGHT Heath THAMES BASIN HEATHS PIRBRIGHT & CHOBHAM 963.63
DTE N: CATTERICK Lovely Seat - Stainton Moor NORTH PENNINE MOORS NORTH PENNINE MOORS 984.84 0.60 Lower Swaledale Woods NORTH PENNINE DALES And Grasslands MEADOWS 0.83 30.90 DTE N: RIPON PARKS Ripon Parks 30.98
River Ure Bank, Ripon Parks 0.64 DTE N: STRENSALL Strensall Common STRENSALL COMMON 527.39 MOORHOUSE - UPPER DTE N: WARCOP Appleby Fells NORTH PENNINE MOORS TEESDALE 4925.58 Helbeck Wood NORTH PENNINE MOORS 31.82 River Eden And Tributaries 1.59 NORTH PENNINE DALES DTE O: OTTERBURN Barrow Burn Meadows MEADOWS 5.14 Country MOD Site SSSI Name Special Protection Area Special Area of Conservation Ramsar Site Total ENGLAND DTE O: OTTERBURN Barrow Meadow 5.67 Billsmoor Park And Grasslees Wood 4.31 Cottonshope Head Quarry 14.42 NORTH PENNINE DALES Durtrees Burn Grassland MEADOWS 4.23 Harbottle Moors Harbottle Moors 772.72 Holystone Burn Woods 30.29 Linbrigg 7.34 Otterburn Mires 293.58 Ramsey's Burn Wood 11.88 River Coquet And Coquet Valley Woodlands 91.35 Simonside Hills Simonside hills 258.52 DTE O: PONTELAND RIFLE RANGE Prestwick Carr 50.47 DTE O: WHITBURN RANGES Durham Coast NORTHUMBRIA COAST Durham Coast NORTHUMBRIA COAST 2.80 DTE SE: ACRISE Great Shuttlesfield Down 21.82 DTE SE: BOYINGTON COURT/NORTH Alkham, Lydden And COURT/LYDDEN Swingfield Woods 106.57 Chequer's Wood And Old DTE SE: CANTERBURY OLD PARK Park 104.33 Folkestone To Etchinghill FOLKESTONE TO Escarpment (And Asholt ETCHINGHILL DTE SE: CPTA Wood) ESCARPMENT 153.98 DTE SE: HYTHE 'THE ROUGH' Lympne Escarpment 36.95 Dungeness, Romney Marsh DTE SE: LYDD And Rye Bay DUNGENESS 1158.41 24.49 Lydden And Temple Ewell LYDDEN & TEMPLE EWELL DTE SE: LYDDEN Downs DOWNS 8.48 DTE SE: PIPPINGFORD PARK Ashdown Forest ASHDOWN FOREST ASHDOWN FOREST 292.78 DTE SE: SHORNCLIFF (ST MARTINS CAMP) Seabrook Stream 15.08 DTE SP: BOVINGTON River Frome 0.34 Turners Puddle Heath DORSET HEATHLANDS DORSET HEATHS DORSET HEATHLANDS 287.55 DTE SP: BOVINGTON: TONERSPUDDLE HEATH TRAINING AREA Turners Puddle Heath DORSET HEATHLANDS DORSET HEATHS DORSET HEATHLANDS 52.62 Povington And Grange DTE SP: LULWORTH Heaths DORSET HEATHLANDS DORSET HEATHS DORSET HEATHLANDS 1048.98 0.13 Purbeck Ridge (West) 157.18 ISLE OF PORTLAND TO South Dorset Coast STUDLAND CLIFFS 783.08 DTE SP: SALISBURY PLAIN Bratton Downs 163.76 Great Cheverell Hill 33.69 River Avon System RIVER AVON 32.66 Salisbury Plain SALISBURY PLAIN SALISBURY PLAIN 19701.28
Scratchbury And Cotley Hills 53.19 Upton Cow Down 6.40 DTE SW: FREMINGTON CAMP Fremington Quay Cliffs 1.43 DTE SW: PENHALE Penhale Dunes PENHALE DUNES 360.10 TAMAR ESTUARIES PLYMOUTH SOUND & DTE SW: SCRAESDON FORT Lynher Estuary COMPLEX ESTUARIES 7.42 TAMAR ESTUARIES PLYMOUTH SOUND & DTE SW: SCRAESDON WATERSIDE Lynher Estuary COMPLEX ESTUARIES 14.58 Plymouth Sound Shores And PLYMOUTH SOUND & DTE SW: STADDON HEIGHTS Cliffs ESTUARIES 6.75 Rame Head And Whitsand PLYMOUTH SOUND & DTE SW: TRENGANTLE Bay ESTUARIES 50.87 DTE SW: WILLSWORTHY North Dartmoor DARTMOOR 1007.06 DTE SW: WOODBURY COMMON East Devon Pebblebed EAST DEVON PEBBLEBED (LYMPSTONE) Heaths EAST DEVON HEATHS HEATHS 6.30 DTE SW: WYKE REGIS TRAINING CHESIL BEACH & THE AREA Chesil & The Fleet FLEET CHESIL AND THE FLEET CHESIL AND THE FLEET 23.51 DTE SW: YOXTER RANGE Chancellor's Farm 32.43 DTE SW?: TIPNER FIRING RANGE Portsmouth Harbour PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR 3.59 DTE W&W: KINGSBURY RANGES Kingsbury Wood 60.11 DTE W&W: LEEK & UPPER HULME Leek Moors PEAK DISTRICT MOORS 432.61 DTE W&W: SEALAND DEE ESTUARY THE DEE ESTUARY DEE ESTUARY DEE ESTUARY 301.50 Upper Solway Flats And UPPER SOLWAY FLATS & UPPER SOLWAY FLATS & EASTRIGGS Marshes MARSHES SOLWAY FIRTH MARSHES 274.83 TINTAGEL MARSLAND HARTLAND POINT Marsland To Clovelly Coast CLOVELLY COAST 0.22 HMS EXCELLENT: HORSEA ISLAND Portsmouth Harbour PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR 10.22 KEOGH BARRACKS DEFENCE MEDICAL TRAINING CENTRE Basingstoke Canal 9.53 LODGE HILL & CHATTENDEN Chattenden Woods 55.15 MOD ESKMEALS Drigg Coast DRIGG COAST 112.98 ISLE OF PORTLAND TO MOD PORTLAND BILL Isle Of Portland STUDLAND CLIFFS 4.60 Benfleet And Southend BENFLEET & SOUTHEND MOD SHOEBURYNESS Marshes MARSHES BENFLEET & SOUTHEND 98.57 Foulness FOULNESS ESSEX ESTUARIES FOULNESS 10685.65 MOD ST THOMASS HEAD Middle Hope SEVERN ESTUARY SEVERN ESTUARY SEVERN ESTUARY 17.11 Severn Estuary SEVERN ESTUARY SEVERN ESTUARY SEVERN ESTUARY 15.23 Steeple Point To Marsland TINTAGEL MARSLAND MORWENSTOW Mouth CLOVELLY COAST 20.23 SOLENT AND NEWTOWN Newtown Harbour SOUTHAMPTON WATER Solent Maritime Solent & Southampton Water 259.57 POOLE RM (HAMWORTHY) Ham Common DORSET HEATHLANDS DORSET HEATHS DORSET HEATHLANDS 7.61 RAF BARKSTON HEATH: BARKSTON HEATH Copper Hill 0.56 RAF FYLINGDALES North York Moors NORTH YORK MOORS NORTH YORK MOORS 741.56 RAF LAKENHEATH Raf Lakenheath BRECKLAND BRECKLAND 110.86 Wangford Warren And Carr BRECKLAND 3.09 GODREVY HEAD TO ST RAF PORTREATH Godrevy Head To St Agnes AGNES 37.64 BORDER MIRES KIELDER - RAF SPADEADAM Caudbeck Flow BUTTERBURN 18.20 Irthing Gorge 5.71 Kielder Mires 0.61 Country MOD Site SSSI Name Special Protection Area Special Area of Conservation Ramsar Site Total Kielderhead And Emblehope BORDER MIRES KIELDER - ENGLAND RAF SPADEADAM Moors BUTTERBURN 5.63 River Eden And Tributaries 13.95 BORDER MIRES KIELDER - Spadeadam Mires BUTTERBURN 1045.18 Whitfield Moor, Plenmeller And Ashholme Commons 0.20 RAF WITTERING Whitewater Valley 2.15
RAF WOODVALE Sefton Coast RIBBLE & ALT ESTUARIES SEFTON COAST RIBBLE & ALT ESTUARIES 6.40 RNAS CULDROSE Loe Pool 0.00 RNAS CULDROSE: PREDANNACK West Lizard THE LIZARD 133.14 RSME CHATHAM - YANTLET South Thames Estuary And THAMES ESTUARY AND THAMES ESTUARY& DEMOLITION RANGE Marshes MARSHES MARSHES 146.36 Saltfleetby - Theddlethorpe THEDDLETHORPE RANGE Dunes HUMBER ESTUARY Humber Estuary 350.63 THORNEY ISLAND / BAKER CHICHESTER AND BARRACKS Chichester Harbour LANGSTONE HARBOURS ISLE OF WIGHT DOWNS 230.23 TAMAR ESTUARIES PLYMOUTH SOUND & TOR POINT HMS RALEIGH St John's Lake COMPLEX ESTUARIES 226.84 Tower Hill To Cockham TOWER HILL UPNOR Wood 18.27
WOODBRIDGE ARMY AIRFIELD Sutton And Hollesley Heaths SANDLINGS 11.44 Total Count / Area 95 141 71456.2 SSSIs on MOD Land - Scotland, Wales & NI
Interest WITHIN
Max of MOD SSSI AREA (ha)
Country MOD Site SSSI Name Special Protection Area Special Area of Conservation Ramsar Site Total NI DTE O: BALLYKINLER MURLOUGH 386.31 DTE O: MAGILLIGAN TRAINING CENTRE / BALLYMACLARRY MAGILLIGAN 702.66 SCOTLAND DCSA RADIO CRIMOND LOCH OF STRATHBEG Loch of Strathbeg Loch of Strathbeg 3.6048919
DMC BEITH BANKHEAD MOSS, BEITH BANKHEAD MOSS 32.49991929 DMC CROMBIE FIRTH OF FORTH FIRTH OF FORTH FIRTH OF FORTH 108.5212671 FIRTH OF TAY & EDEN DTE S: BARRY BUDDON BARRY LINKS ESTUARY BARRY LINKS FIRTH OF TAY & EDEN 1024.728207 FIRTH OF TAY & EDEN MONIFIETH BAY ESTUARY Firth of Tay & Eden Estuary FIRTH OF TAY & EDEN 0.53546694 DTE S: CAPE WRATH BOMBING RANGE CAPE WRATH CAPE WRATH CAPE WRATH 936.406568 DTE S: FARAID HEAD (CAPE WRATH BOMBING RANGE) DURNESS DURNESS 19.29998378 DTE S: FORT GEORGE WHITENESS HEAD INNER MORAY FIRTH MORAY FIRTH INNER MORAY FIRTH 183.3431395 ABBEY BURN FOOT TO DTE S: KIRKCUDBRIGHT T.A. BALCARRY POINT 7.114 TORRS TO MASON'S WALK 74.76222264 DORNOCH FIRTH & LOCH DORNOCH FIRTH & DORNOCH FIRTH & LOCH DTE S: TAIN BOMBING RANGE MORRICH MORE FLEET MORRICH MORE FLEET 1195.105971 UPPER SOLWAY FLATS & UPPER SOLWAY FLATS & UPPER SOLWAY FLATS & EASTRIGGS MARSHES MARSHES SOLWAY FIRTH MARSHES 861.8465334 FORT GEORGE COMMUNICATION ARDERSIER GLACIAL SITE DEPOSITS 0.515 BORNISH AND MOD SOUTH UIST / HEBRIDES ORMICLATE MACHAIRS 4.65131552 LOCH BEE 196.3393394 LOCH BEE MACHAIR SOUTH UIST SOUTH UIST MACHAIR SOUTH UIST 665.4672457 MOD WEST FREUGH SCARE ROCKS LUCE BAY AND SANDS 0 TORRS WARREN - LUCE LOCH OF INCH & TORRS TORRS WARREN - LUCE LOCH OF INCH & TORRS SANDS WARREN SANDS WARREN 1580.939928 CULBIN SANDS & MORAY AND NAIRN MORAY BASIN FIRTHS RAF KINLOSS FINDHORN BAY COAST CULBIN BAR AND SPEYS 7.1296393 RAF LEUCHARS EARLSHALL MUIR 5.07702191 FIRTH OF TAY & EDEN EDEN ESTUARY ESTUARY Firth of Tay & Eden Estuary FIRTH OF TAY & EDEN 2.91525444 STORNOWAY DRDF SITE TONG SALTINGS 0.01797967 CASTLEMARTIN CLIFFS LIMESTONE COAST OF WALES DTE P: CASTLEMARTIN AND DUNES CASTLEMARTIN COAST SOUTH-WEST WALES 642.833 FRESHWATER EAST CLIFFS TO SKRINKLE DTE P: MANORBIER HAVEN PEMBROKESHIRE MARINE 14.271 DTE P: PEMBREY SANDS AIR ARFORDIR PEN-BRE / CARMARTHEN BAY/BAE CARMARTHEN BAY WEAPONS RANGE PEMBREY COAST CAERFYRDDIN DUNES 683.714 CORS PENALLY (PENALLY CARMARTHEN BAY/BAE DTE P: PENALLY MARSH) CAERFYRDDIN 9.679 LYDSTEP HEAD TO TENBY CARMARTHEN BAY/BAE LIMESTONE COAST OF BURROWS CAERFYRDDIN SOUTH-WEST WALES 66.87705406 DTE W&W: CAERWENT DINHAM MEADOWS 14.945 GWENT LEVELS - MAGOR DTE W&W: ROGIET MOOR AND UNDY 15.869 DEE ESTUARY / ABER DTE W&W: SEALAND AFON DYFRDWY The Dee Estuary(Wales) Dee Estuary / Aber Dyfrdwy The Dee Estuary(Wales) 120 AFON WYSG (ISAFONYDD) / RIVER USK DTE W&W: SENNYBRIDGE (TRIBUTARIES) 11.349 BLAEN CILIENI 19.972 MYNYDD EPYNT MYNYDD EPYNT 4.031 RIVER USK RIVER USK 0.059
RIVER WYE TRIBUTARIES RIVER WYE 0.045 ABERARTH - CARREG Cardigan Bay / Bae MOD ABERPORTH WYLAN Ceredigion 60.627 Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries / Bae Caerfyrddin MOD PENDINE ABER TAF / TAF ESTUARY ac Aberoedd 176.698
TWYNI LACHARN - PENTYWYN / LAUGHARNE CARMARTHEN BAY/BAE CARMARTHEN BAY - PENDINE BURROWS CAERFYRDDIN DUNES 1532.541 LLYNNAU Y FALI - VALLEY RAF VALLEY LAKES YNYS FEURIG Llyn Dinam 3.21
YNYS GAINT (MENAI BRIDGE) GLANNAU PORTHAETHWY 0.17 Total Count / Area 30 42 11376.7