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The North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest is an area of European importance for wildlife in Norfolk, England.It comprises 7,700 ha (19,027 acres) of the county's north coast from just west of Holme-next-the-Sea to Kelling, and is additionally protected through Natura 2000, Special Protection Area (SPA) listings; it is also part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural ...
The North Norfolk Coast SSSI was created in 1986 from preexisting SSSIs at Blakeney Point, Holme Dunes, Cley Marshes, Salthouse Marshes (all designated in 1954), Morston Saltmarshes, Brancaster Manor (1968), Stiffkey Saltmarshes (1969), Thornham Marshes (1972) and Titchwell Marsh (1973), together with the national nature reserves (NNRs) at Scolt Head Island and Holkham, and substantial ...
In 1986 the NNR was subsumed into the newly created 7,700 hectares (19,000 acres) North Norfolk Coast SSSI. The larger area is now additionally protected through Natura 2000, Special Protection Area (SPA) and Ramsar listings, and is part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [7]
North Norfolk Coast: Norfolk: 78.87 5 January 1976 Northumbria Coast: Northumberland: 11.08 2 February 2000 Ouse Washes: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk: 24.69 5 January 1976 Pagham Harbour: Hampshire: 6.37 30 March 1988 Pevensey Levels: East Sussex: 35.78 2 February 1999 Poole Harbour: Dorset: 24.39 22 July 1999 Portsmouth Harbour: Hampshire: 12.49 28 ...
Cley Marshes is a 176-hectare (430-acre) nature reserve on the North Sea coast of England just outside the village of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk.A reserve since 1926, it is the oldest of the reserves belonging to the Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT), which is itself the oldest county Wildlife Trust in the United Kingdom.
This former quarry is described by Natural England as "a nationally important site for dating the constituent facies of the Lower Cretaceous in north Norfolk". It has yielded ammonites which date to the Hauterivian age around 130 million years ago. [218] Gunton Park Lake: 18.3 hectares (45 acres) [219] NO Norwich
Titchwell Marsh is an English nature reserve owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Located on the north coast of the county of Norfolk, between the villages of Titchwell and Thornham, about 8 km (5.0 mi) east of the seaside resort of Hunstanton, its 171 hectares (420 acres) include reed beds, saltmarshes, a freshwater lagoon and sandy beach, with a small ...
Salthouse Marshes is a 66-hectare (160-acre) nature reserve west of Sheringham in Norfolk.It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. [1] It is part of the North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest, [2] Geological Conservation Review site, [3] Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [4] Ramsar site, [5] Special Areas of Conservation [6] and Special Protection Area. [7]