Airds of Kells
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Airds of Kells is a village in the Scottish
council area of Dumfries and Galloway
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Airds of Kells Wood is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
, notified in 1983. It has the largest remaining block of oak woodland in the Ken/Dee valley.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
council area of Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...
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Airds of Kells Wood is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
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...
, notified in 1983. It has the largest remaining block of oak woodland in the Ken/Dee valley.