North Wales

North Wales

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

• Allt y Benglogro
• Ceunant Cynfal
• Ceunant Llennurch
• Coed Camlyn
• Coed Cymerau
• Coed Dolgarrog
• Coed Ganllwyd
• Coed Gorswen
• Coed Tremadog
• Coed y Rhygen
• Coedydd Aber
• Coedydd Maentwrog
• Cors Geirch
• Cwm Glas Crafnant
  River Crafnant
  The River Crafnant is a tributary of the River Conwy , which is the main river of the Conwy valley in North Wales....
  
  
• Cwm Idwal
  Cwm Idwal
  Cwm Idwal is a hanging valley in the Glyderau range of mountains in northern Snowdonia, the national park in the mountainous region of North Wales. Its main interest is to hill walkers and rock climbers, but it is also of interest to geologists and naturalists, given its combination of altitude ,...
  
  
• Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses NNR
  Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses NNR
  Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve is a National Nature Reserve which straddles the border between England and Wales, near Whixall and Ellesmere in Shropshire, England....
  
   (partly in England)
• Hafod Elwy Moor
• Hafod Garregog
• Maes y Facrell
• Morfa Dyffryn
  Morfa Dyffryn
  Morfa Dyffryn beach is on the west coast of Wales, between Barmouth and Harlech in Gwynedd. This sandy beach is several kilometres long and is chiefly known for having an officially recognised naturist area, one kilometre in length...
  
  
• Morfa Harlech
• Rhinog
  Rhinogydd
  The Rhinogydd are a range of mountains located east of Harlech in North Wales....
  
  
• Y Berwyn
  Berwyn range
  The Berwyn range is an isolated and sparsely populated area of moorland located in the north-east of Wales, roughly bounded by Llangollen in the north-east, Corwen in the north-west, Bala in the south-west, and Oswestry in the south-east.The Berwyn range also played its part in causing King Henry...
  
  
• Ynys Enlli
  Bardsey Island
  Bardsey Island , the legendary "Island of 20,000 saints", lies off the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. The Welsh name means "The Island in the Currents", although its English name refers to the "Island of the Bards", or possibly the island of the Viking chieftan, "Barda". It is ...
  
  
• Yr Wyddfa
  Snowdon
  Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales, at an altitude of above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside Scotland. It is located in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, and has been described as "probably the busiest mountain in Britain"...
  
  

Isle of Anglesey

• Cors Bodeilio
• Cors Erddreiniog
• Cors Goch
• Newborough Warren
  Newborough Warren
  Newborough Warren near the village of Newborough is part of a National Nature Reserve, in Anglesey, Wales. It includes Llanddwyn Bay and Malltraeth Bay, divided by Llanddwyn Island, and part of the Anglesey Coastal Path ....
  
  

Mid Wales

Mid Wales

Mid Wales is the name given to the central region of Wales. The Mid Wales Regional Committee of the National Assembly for Wales covered the counties of Ceredigion and Powys and the area of Gwynedd that had previously been the district of Meirionydd. A similar definition is used by the BBC...

• Allt Rhyd y Groes
• Cadair Idris
  Cadair Idris
  Cadair Idris or Cader Idris is a mountain in Gwynedd, Wales that lies at the southern end of the Snowdonia National Park. The peak, which is one of the most popular in Wales for walkers and hikers,  is composed largely of Ordovician igneous rocks, with classic glacial erosion features such as...
  
  
• Claerwen
  Claerwen
  The Claerwen reservoir and dam in Powys, Wales, were the last additions to the Elan Valley Reservoirs system built to provide water for the increasingly demanding city of Birmingham, in neighbouring England. Built mainly of concrete, the exterior of the dam face is dressed stone. The dam itself is...
  
  
• Coed Rheidol
• Cors Caron
  Cors Caron
  Cors Caron, also known as the Tregaron Bog, is a raised bog in Ceredigion, Wales which covers an area of approximately . Cors Caron represents the most intact surviving example of a raised bog landscape in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Dyfi
  Dyfi National Nature Reserve
  The Dyfi National Nature Reserve, managed by The Countryside Council for Wales, is located north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Waleson the Dyfi estuary.The area was designated as a Nature Reserve in 1969 and consists of three separate areas:...
  
  
• Llyn Eiddwen
  Llyn Eiddwen
  Llyn Eiddwen is a lake and site of special scientific interest near Trefenter in Ceredigion, Wales. It is the source of the River Aeron.This natural lake provides an environment to preserve rare local water-plant life and seasonal animals. It is owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and...
  
  
• Rhos Goch
• Rhos Llawr Cwrt
• Roundton Hill
• Stanner Rocks
  Stanner Rocks
  Stanner Rocks is a rounded hill, steep in parts, which lies close to the Wales border with England between Walton and Kington. In addition to having some of the oldest rocks in Wales, a superb collection of wild plants can be found here...
  
  

South Wales

South Wales

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...

• Carmel
  Carmel National Nature Reserve
  Carmel National Nature Reserve lies close to the village of Carmel in Carmarthenshire.Its remarkable geology and soils allow an unusual combination of habitats to exist side by side, including ash woodland, species-rich grassland and open water...
  
  
• Coedmor
• Coed-y-Cerrig
• Coombe Valley Woods
• Cors Goch, Llanllwch
• Corsydd Llangloffan
• Cors y Llyn
• Craig Cerrig Gleisiad a Fran Frynych
  Craig Cerrig-gleisiad and Fan Frynych National Nature Reserve
  Craig Cerrig-gleisiad and Fan Frynych National Nature Reserve is a 156 acre area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in South Wales.It includes the peaks of Craig Flamdaman and Fan Frynych...
  
   (Britain's most southerly location for Arctic-alpine plants)
• Craig y Cilau
  Craig y Cilau
  Craig y Cilau is a limestone escarpment in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, Wales.It was declared a National Nature Reserve in 1959 because of its importance for wildlife, particularly plants...
  
  
• Crymlyn Bog
  Crymlyn Bog
  Crymlyn Bog is a nature reserve and a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest of international significance, near Swansea, south Wales....
  
   and Pant y Sais
• Cwm Clydach
  Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve
  Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve is an area of 24.8ha of steeply sloping valley-side on the southern side of the Clydach Gorge, two miles east of Brynmawr in southeast Wales which is protected for its ancient semi-natural beech woods...
  
  
• Dan yr Ogof
  Dan yr Ogof
  Dan yr Ogof is a long cave system in south Wales, five miles north of Ystradgynlais and fifteen miles south west of Brecon within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is the main feature of a show cave complex which is claimed to be the largest in Europe and is one of the major tourist...
  
  
• Dinefwr Park
• Fiddlers Elbow
• Gower Coast
  Gower Peninsula
  Gower or the Gower Peninsula is a peninsula in south Wales, jutting from the coast into the Bristol Channel, and administratively part of the City and County of Swansea. Locally it is known as "Gower"...
  
  
• Grassholm Island
• Kenfig Pool
  Kenfig Pool
  Kenfig Pool is a National Nature Reserve situated near Porthcawl, Bridgend. Wild storms and huge tides between the 13th and 15th centuries are mainly responsible for creating the Kenfig dunes near Porthcawl, as they threw vast quantities of sand up over the Glamorgan coast. This buried the nearby...
  
   and dunes
• Lady Park Wood
• Merthyr Mawr
  Merthyr Mawr
  Merthyr Mawr is a village about 2½ miles from the centre of Bridgend in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales.- Buildings and landmarks of note :...
  
  
• Nant Irfon
• Newport Wetlands
• Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
  Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
  Ogof Ffynnon Ddu is a cave located under a hillside in the area surrounding Penwyllt in the Upper Swansea Valley in South Wales...
  
  
• Oxwich
• Pengelli Forest
• Penhow Woodlands
• Ramsey Island
  Ramsey Island
  Ramsey Island is an island about 1 km off the coast of the St David's peninsula in Pembrokeshire on the northern side of St Brides Bay, in southwest Wales....
  
  
• Rhos Goch
• Skomer Island
• Ty Canol
• Stackpole
• Whiteford
  Whiteford National Nature Reserve
  Whiteford National Nature Reserve includes an expanse of sandy beach, Whiteford Sands, a wildlife rich sand dune system and forest.The 3 kilometre stretch of sand that curves gently from the cliffs of Broughton Bay towards the poetically isolated Whiteford Lighthouse is one of the quietest spots on...
  
  

See also

• National Nature Reserves in England
  National Nature Reserves in England
  National Nature Reserves in England are managed by Natural England and are key places for wildlife and natural features in England. They were established to protect the most important areas of habitat and of geological formations...
  
  
• National Nature Reserves in Northern Ireland
  National Nature Reserves in Northern Ireland
  Nature reserves in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom are designated and maintained by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.-List of Nature Reserves:*Altikeeragh Nature Reserve*Annagarriff Nature Reserve*Ballymaclary Nature Reserve...
  
  
• National Nature Reserves in Scotland
  National Nature Reserves in Scotland
  National Nature Reserves in Scotland are established by Scottish Natural Heritage. Until 2004 there were 73 National Nature Reserves in Scotland, as per the list below...
  
  

External links

• Interactive map of designations in Wales, including National Nature Reserves boundaries (select 'Nature Reserves' in UK Map Layers).