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This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

, England
England
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, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Natural England
Natural England
Natural England is the non-departmental public body of the UK government responsible for ensuring that England's natural environment, including its land, flora and fauna, freshwater and marine environments, geology and soils, are protected and improved...

 formerly English Nature
English Nature
English Nature was the United Kingdom government agency that promoted the conservation of wildlife, geology and wild places throughout England between 1990 and 2006...

 is responsible for designating SSSIs in England, and choses sites because of their fauna, flora
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

, geological
Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...

 or physiographical features. , there are 211 sites designated in this 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...

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

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Biological Interest Geological Interest
Aller Sand Pit
Aller Sand Pit
Aller Sand Pit is a 0.22 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon, notified in 1969. It is the type section for the Aller Gravel....

   0.22 1969 http://www.natureonthemap.naturalengland.org.uk/map.aspx?map=sssi&feature=1001286,sssi,HYPERLINK,LABEL
Andrew's Wood
Andrew's Wood
Andrews Wood, , is a nature reserve managed by the Devon Wildlife Trust.,It is also a 23.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notified in 1952....

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Arlington   45.3 1988
Ashburton Road Cuttings   5.80 1997
Ashculm Turbary   6.6 1976
River Axe
River Axe, Devon
The River Axe is a river in Dorset, Somerset and Devon, in the south-west of England.It rises near Beaminster in Dorset, flows west then south by Axminster and joins the English Channel at Axmouth near Seaton in Lyme Bay...

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Axmouth To Lyme Regis Undercliffs 334.6 1952
Babbacombe Cliffs   13.5 1976
Barle Valley
Barle Valley
Barle Valley is a 104.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon and Somerset, notified in 1997.The site includes the Somerset Wildlife Trust's Mounsey Wood Nature Reserve and Knaplock and North Barton SSSI notified in 1954...

   104.2 1997 http://www.natureonthemap.naturalengland.org.uk/map.aspx?map=sssi&feature=1000449,sssi,HYPERLINK,LABEL
Barricane Beach   8.2 1989
Beaford Moor   31.6 1987
Beer Quarry Caves
Beer Quarry Caves
Beer Quarry Caves is a man-made limestone underground complex located about a mile west of the village of Beer, Devon, and the main source in England for beer stone...

 27.8 1952
Berry Head To Sharkham Point 67.9 1952
Bickleigh Wood Quarry   0.6 1974
Billacombe   1.9 1989
Black Down and Sampford Commons
Black Down and Sampford Commons
Black Down and Sampford Commons is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon and Somerset, notified in 1952.The Little Breach reserve, which forms part of the SSSI is an area of heathy grassland on Greensand, with some blackthorn and birch, noted for its butterflies and...

   155.2 1952 http://www.natureonthemap.naturalengland.org.uk/map.aspx?map=sssi&feature=1003750,sssi,HYPERLINK,LABEL
Blackslade Mire   67.6 1952
Blackstone Point   7.38

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Bolshayne Fen
Bolshayne Fen
Bolshayne Fen is a wetland in southeast Devon, England. It has an area of 1.62 hectares.The site was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest on 25 September 1992.-Site Description:...

   1.6 1992
Bolt Head To Bolt Tail   228.7 1976
Bonhay Road Cutting   0.3 1974
Bovey Heathfield   25.3 1989
Bovey Valley Woodlands   261.5 1963
Bradiford Valley   23.2 1974
Bradworthy Common   1992
Brampford Speke
Brampford Speke
Brampford Speke is a small village in Devon, 4 miles to the north of Exeter. The population is 307. It is located on red sandstone cliffs overlooking the river Exe. Its sister village of Upton Pyne lies to its southwest, and Stoke Canon is across the river, to the east...

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Braunton Burrows
Braunton Burrows
Braunton Burrows is a sand dune system on the North Devon coast. Braunton Burrows is a prime British sand dune site, the largest sand dune system in England. It is particularly important ecologically because it includes the complete successional range of dune plant communities, with over 400...

 1356.7 1952
Braunton
Braunton
Braunton is situated west of Barnstaple, Devon, England and is claimed to be the largest village in England, with a population in 2001 of 7,510. It is home to the nearby Braunton Great Field and Braunton Burrows, a National Nature and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve....

 Swanpool
Swanpool, Devon
Swanpool, near Braunton, Devon, England, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest managed by the Devon Wildlife Trust as a nature reserve. It is a small area of coastal grassland and marsh....

    
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Brent Tor
Brent Tor is a tor on the western edge of Dartmoor, approximately five miles north of Tavistock, rising to 1100ft above sea level. The Tor is surmounted by the Church of St Michael, the parish church of the village of Brentor, which lies below the Tor.-Geology:Brent Tor is a unique example of an...


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| Bulmoor Pastures & Coppice
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| Burrator Quarries
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Caen Valley Bats    
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| Chapel Hill
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| Chudleigh Knighton Heath
Chudleigh Knighton Heath
Chudleigh Knighton Heath, near Chudleigh Knighton, Devon is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, so designated because of its rare lowland heath vegetation. It is a habitat for many rare species including the ant, Formica exsecta...


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| Dawlish Warren
Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve
The Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve is a National Nature Reserve near the village of Dawlish Warren in south Devon, England. It is part of the Exe Estuary Special Protection Area, and sits on a sand spit which runs across the mouth of the estuary....


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| Dendles Wood
Dendles Wood
Dendles Wood is an area of protected oak-beech woodland located on the southern edge of Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. Forming part of the Dartmoor Special Area of Conservation, the wood is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and 30 hectares of it has been designated a National...


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| Devon United Mine
Devon United Mine
Devon United Mine is a 1.0 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon, England, notified in 1987.-Source:* -External links:*...


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Site name Reason for Designation Area (hectares) Grid reference Year in which notified Map
Biological Interest Geological Interest
East Dartmoor    
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| East Devon Pebblebed Heaths
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Exe Estuary
The Exe Estuary is an estuary on the south coast of Devon, England.The estuary starts just to the south of the city of Exeter, and extends south for approximately eight miles to meet the English Channel...


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Exmoor Coastal Heaths
Exmoor Coastal Heaths is a 1758.3 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon and Somerset, notified in 1994....


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Glenthorne
Glenthorne is a 13.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Oare within the Exmoor National Park, on the border of Somerset and Devon, notified in 1989....


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Haldon Forest
Haldon Forest
Haldon Forest is a forest located in Devon, England. The forest consists of several different woods.-Management:It is managed by the Forestry Commission, who also manage other forests throughout the country.-Activities:...

   1013.2 1992
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Lambert's Castle
Lambert's Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in the county of Dorset in southwest England. Since 1981 it has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest on account of its geology, archaeology and ecology....


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Lundy
Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel, lying off the coast of Devon, England, approximately one third of the distance across the channel between England and Wales. It measures about at its widest. Lundy gives its name to a British sea area and is one of the islands of England.As of...


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Meadfoot Sea Road
Meadfoot Sea Road is a 6.1 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon, England, notified in 1987.-Source:* -External links:*...


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Meldon Quarry
Meldon Quarry is a granite quarry in the parish of Meldon, West Devon, England. Meldon Quarry railway station is a railway station which serves the quarry.- History :...


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Merrivale, Devon
Merrivale is a locality in western Dartmoor, in the West Devon district of Devon, England. It is best known for the nearby series of Bronze Age megalithic monuments to the south and a former granite quarry.-Merrivale hamlet:...


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Morte Point
Morte Point is a peninsula on the North West coast of Devon, England, belonging to the National Trust. To the east is the village of Mortehoe and to the south is the seaside resort of Woolacombe....


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Mount Wise
Mount Wise is a bare rock summit, the highest point on Brown Peninsula. Named by A.J. Heine of the McMurdo Ice Shelf Project, 1962-63, for K.C. Wise, a New Zealander who explored the peninsula while a member of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1958-59....


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River Otter
    Not to be confused with the animal Otter or the River Ottery in CornwallThe River Otter rises in the Blackdown Hills just inside the county of Somerset, near Otterford, then flows south for some 32 km through East Devon to the English Channel at the western end of Lyme Bay, part of...


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Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs
Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs is a Site of Special Scientific Interest around the Plymouth Sound, a large area of water where the River Plym and Tamar meet. It stretches across the two ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall and the unitary authority area of Plymouth...


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Prawle Point and Start Point Site of Special Scientific Interest
The Prawle Point and Start Point Site of Special Scientific Interest is a 341.2 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in southern Devon, notified in 1976.It includes the coastal headlands of Prawle Point and Start Point....


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Saltern Cove
Saltern Cove is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is in Paignton, Devon on the South coast of England.-Flora and fauna:The rocky coastline at Saltern Cove supports diverse communities of intertidal plants and animals...


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Slapton Ley
Slapton Ley is a lagoon on the south coast of Devon, England, separated from Start Bay by a shingle beach, known as Slapton Sands.It is the largest natural freshwater lake in South West England....


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South Exmoor
South Exmoor is a 3132.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Devon and Somerset, England, notified in 1992....


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South Milton Ley
South Milton Ley is a wetland in the South Hams, Devon, England. It was notified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1976. Part of the site is managed as a nature reserve by the Devon Birdwatching and Preservation Society.-Site description:...


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Stokenham
Stokenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Devon.Stokenham civil parish includes the settlements of Torcross, Beesands, Hallsands, Kellaton, Kernborough, Dunstone, Beeson and Chillington as well as Stokenham itself. It forms part of the district of South Hams.To the east of...


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Tamar–Tavy Estuary
The Tamar–Tavy Estuary is a Site of Special Scientific Interest covering the tidal estuaries of the River Tamar and the River Tavy on the border between Cornwall and Devon in England, UK. Part of the Tamar estuary also forms the Tamar Estuary Nature Reserve, owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust...

    
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Wistman's Wood
Wistman's Wood is one of three remote copses of stunted oaks on Dartmoor, Devon, England. It lies at an altitude of between 380–420 metres in the valley of the West Dart River near Two Bridges, at grid reference SX613770....


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Yarner Wood & Trendlebere Down
Yarner Wood & Trendlebere Down in Dartmoor, Devon, England is a woodland managed by Natural England. The woodland is part of the East Dartmoor Woods and Heaths National Nature Reserve. The entire area is while Yarner Wood is . Since 1985 the site has been designated a Site of Special Scientific...


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