- Durham Coast
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Durham Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest 
Blackhall Rocks on the Durham coastCountry England Region North East District Hartlepool,
County Durham,
Tyne and WearLocation NZ381685
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NZ495362Area 765.41 ha (1,891.37 acres) Notification 1960 Management Natural England Area of Search Cleveland,
County Durham,
Tyne and WearInterest Biological
GeologicalWebsite: Map of site The Durham Coast is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham, England. Starting just south of Crimdon Dene, north of Hartlepool, it extends, with a few interruptions, northward to the mouth of the River Tyne at South Shields.
The area included in the SSSI includes six Geological Conservation Review sites, including Marsden Bay, a classic study area for coastal geomorphology since the 1950s.[1]
The SSSI is important both for its flora and fauna. It includes most of the paramaritime Magnesian Limestone vegetation found in Britain, a vegetation type that is unique to the Durham coast and that differs markedly from the grassland developed on similar strata elsewhere in lowland Durham.[1]
The Durham coast also supports a variety of birds, including nationally-important populations of sanderling, wintering purple sandpiper and breeding little tern. There is also a rich variety of invertebrates, including colonies of the Durham Argus butterfly, Aricia artaxerxes salmacis, and the least minor moth, Photedes captiuncula.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Durham Coast". English Nature. 1999. http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000255.pdf. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods • Baldersdale Woodlands • Bishop Middleham Quarry • Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells • Botany Hill • Bowes Moor • Bowlees and Friar House Meadows • Brasside Pond • Brignall Banks • Burnhope Burn • Butterby Oxbow • Cassop Vale • Castle Eden Dene • Causey Bank Mires • Charity Land • Close House Mine • Cornriggs Meadows • Cotherstone Moor • Crag Gill • Crime Rigg and Sherburn Hill Quarries • Dabble Bank • Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine • Durham Coast • Fairy Holes Cave • Far High House Meadows • Fishburn Grassland • Foster's Hush • Frog Wood Bog • God's Bridge • Grains o' th' Beck Meadows • Green Croft and Langley Moor • Greenfoot Quarry • Hannah's Meadows • Hawthorn Dene • Hawthorn Quarry • Hell Kettles • Hesledon Moor East • Hesledon Moor West • Hexhamshire Moors • Hisehope Burn Valley • Hulam Fen • Hunder Beck Juniper • Kilmond Scar • Low Redford Meadows • Lune Forest • Mere Beck Meadows • Middle Crossthwaite • Middle Side and Stonygill Meadows • Middleton Quarry • Middridge Quarry • Moorhouse and Cross Fell • Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor • Neasham Fen • Newton Ketton Meadow • Old Moss Lead Vein • Park End Wood • Pig Hill • Pike Whin Bog • Pittington Hill • Pow Hill Bog • Quarrington Hill Grasslands • Railway Stell West • Raisby Hill Grassland • Raisby Hill Quarry • Redcar Field • Rigg Farm and Stake Hill Meadows • Rogerley Quarry • Sherburn Hill • Shipley and Great Woods • Sleightholme Beck Gorge - The Troughs • Slit Woods • Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon • Teesdale Allotments • The Bottoms • The Carrs • Thrislington Plantation • Town Kelloe Bank • Trimdon Limestone Quarry • Tuthill Quarry • Upper Teesdale • Waldridge Fell • West Newlandside Meadows • West Park Meadows • West Rigg Open Cutting • Westernhope Burn Wood • Wingate Quarry • Witton-le-Wear • Yoden Village QuarryCity of Sunderland Claxheugh Rock and Ford Limestone Quarry • Dawson's Plantation Quarry • Durham Coast • Fulwell and Carley Hill Quarries • Gilley Law Quarry • Hastings Hill • Herrington Hill • Hetton Bogs • High Haining Hill • High Moorsley • Humbledon Hill Quarry • Hylton Castle Cutting • Joe's Pond • Moorsley Banks • South Hylton Pasture • Tunstall Hills and Ryhope Cutting • Wear River BankGateshead Gibside • Lower Derwent Meadows • Pockerley Farm Pond • Ridley Gill • Ryton Willows • Shibdon Pond • Strother Hills • Thornley WoodNewcastle upon Tyne Big Waters • Brenkley Meadows • Gosforth Park • Hallow Hill • Prestwick CarrNorth Tyneside Northumberland Shore • Tynemouth to Seaton SluiceSouth Tyneside Boldon Pastures • Cleadon Hill • Harton Down Hill • West Farm Meadow, BoldonCategories:- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland, England
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Tyne and Wear
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1960
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- County Durham geography stubs
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