List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Suffolk

View over a pond from a bird hide at Lackford Lakes

The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Suffolk, England. In England the body responsible for designating SSSIs is Natural England, which chooses a site because of its fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features.^[1]

As of January 2013 there were 141 SSSIs within Suffolk.^[2] Sites include ones also designated as Ramsar Sites, ancient monuments, areas of Heritage Coast, National Nature Reserves and European special protection areas. Management is carried out locally, including by the National Trust, Ministry of Defence, RSPB and Suffolk Wildlife Trust as well as by local landowners.

Sites range from the very small, with Waldringfield Pit being just 0.08 hectares (0.2 acres) in area, to two of the largest SSSI in England in the Breckland Farmland and Breckland Forest areas, both of which are larger than 10,000 hectares (24,711 acres) in area and cross the border into Norfolk.

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

The data in the table is taken from English Nature's website in the form of citation sheets for each SSSI.^[3]

Sites

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Site name	Reason for designation		Area^[A]		Grid reference^[B]	Year in which notified	Map^[C]
	Biological interest	Geological interest	Hectares	Acres
Abbey Wood, Flixton			18.5	45.7	TM315859	1986	Map
Alde-Ore Estuary			2,554.3	6,311.7	TM438491	1992	Map
Aldeburgh Brick Pit			0.8	2.1	TM452572	1990	Map
Aldeburgh Hall Pit			0.8	1.9	TM452566	1986	Map
Arger Fen			49.7	122.8	TL933356	1986	Map
Bangrove Wood, Ixworth			19.3	47.7	TL930721	1983	Map
Barking Woods			98.8	243.9	TM073517	1985	Map
Barnby Broad and Marshes			192.3	475.1	TM477907	1990	Map
Barnham Heath			78.6	194.2	TL882798	1985	Map
Bawdsey Cliff			16.6	41.1	TM346386	1987	Map
Berner's Heath, Icklingham			235.9	582.6	TL795764	1983	Map
Bixley Heath			5.1	12.5	TM199430	1990	Map
Black Ditches, Cavenham			1.1	2.8	TL774684	1984	Map
Blaxhall Heath			45.9	113.4	TM378568	1987	Map
Blo' Norton and Thelnetham Fen^[D]			21.1	52.2	TM019788	1983	Map
Bobbitshole, Belstead			1.7	4.2	TM149414	1983	Map
Bradfield Woods			81.5	201.2	TL935575	1986	Map
Breckland Farmland^[D]			13,392.6	33,079.7	TL743897	2000	Map
Breckland Forest^[D]			18,126.1	44,771.4	TL808710	2000	Map
Brent Eleigh Woods			31.7	78.2	TL935465	1986	Map
Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton			0.4	0.9	TM356424	1984	Map
Bugg's Hole Fen, Thelnetham			3.9	9.6	TM006791	1984	Map
Burgate Wood			29.8	73.6	TM075757	1987	Map
Cattawade Marshes^[E]			88.2	217.9	TM095330	1988	Map
Cavendish Woods			53.5	132.2	TL799489	1985	Map
Cavenham - Icklingham Heaths			419.0	1,035.0	TL749732	1998	Map
Cherry Hill and The Gallops, Barton Mills			10.4	25.6	TL728718	1985	Map
Chillesford Church Pit			1.1	2.7	TM382523	1986	Map
Chippenhall Green			16.3	40.2	TM286758	1986	Map
Combs Wood			15.0	37.1	TM054568	1982	Map
Cornard Mere, Little Cornard			8.5	21.1	TL887388	1986	Map
Corton Cliffs			5.5	13.7	TM546966	1987	Map
Crag Farm Pit, Sudbourne			4.8	11.9	TM428523	1985	Map
Crag Pit, Aldeburgh			0.3	0.6	TM458580	1987	Map
Crag Pit, Sutton			0.7	1.8	TM317456	1985	Map
Cransford Meadow			4.7	11.5	TM322639	1985	Map
Creeting St. Mary Pits			5.4	13.3	TM096553	1987	Map
Deadman's Grave, Icklingham			127.3	314.5	TL776744	1983	Map
Deben Estuary			981.1	2,423.3	TM295434	1991	Map
Dew's Ponds			6.8	16.8	TM387718	2000	Map
Edwardstone Woods			27.0	66.7	TL928425	1986	Map
Elmsett Park Wood			8.6	21.3	TM065464	1984	Map
Eriswell Low Warren			7.4	18.3	TL739793	1986	Map
Fakenham Wood and Sapiston Great Grove			200.7	495.8	TL927777	1986	Map
Ferry Cliff, Sutton			2.8	7.0	TM279486	1987	Map
Flixton Quarry			0.2	0.4	TM290860	1991	Map
Fox Fritillary Meadow, Framsden			2.4	6.0	TM189606	1983	Map
Foxhole Heath, Eriswell			85.2	210.4	TL737781	1983	Map
Freston and Cutler's Woods with Holbrook Park			142.0	350.7	TM148385	1986	Map
Frithy and Chadacre Woods			28.7	70.8	TL868547	1987	Map
Gedgrave Hall Pit			0.6	1.5	TM405485	1985	Map
Gipping Great Wood			25.9	63.9	TM075624	1985	Map
Glemsford Pits^[F]			33.2	82.1	TL841462	1988	Map
Gosbeck Wood			22.8	56.3	TM145555	1984	Map
Great Blakenham Pit			2.3	5.6	TM117498	1988	Map
Gromford Meadow			1.7	4.2	TM386587	1984	Map
Groton Wood			20.1	49.7	TL977431	1985	Map
Gypsy Camp Meadows, Thrandeston			2.4	6.0	TM114773	1987	Map
Hascot Hill Pit			0.3	0.8	TM061537	1987	Map
Hay Wood, Whepstead			10.4	25.6	TL809577	1985	Map
High House Meadows, Monewden			3.0	7.4	TM226581	1991	Map
Hintlesham Woods			118.1	291.8	TM068429	1986	Map
Holton Pit			1.5	3.8	TM405775	1988	Map
Hopton Fen			15.3	37.8	TL990799	1984	Map
Horringer Court Caves			3.8	9.5	TL836628	1983	Map
How Hill Track			2.1	5.3	TL754764	1986	Map
Hoxne Brick Pit			1.2	2.9	TM174766	1990	Map
Iken Wood			5.3	13.1	TM394565	1986	Map
Ipswich Heaths			39.4	97.4	TM237447	1988	Map
Kentwell Woods			77.6	191.7	TL869478	1987	Map
Knettishall Heath			91.7	226.4	TL953805	1984	Map
Lackford Lakes			105.9	261.4	TL807706	1997	Map
Lakenheath Poors Fen			5.2	12.8	TL701826	1985	Map
Lakenheath Warren			588.3	1,453.2	TL761805	1986	Map
Landguard Common			30.5	75.3	TM285319	1984	Map
Laurel Farm Meadow St.James South Elmham			1.7	4.1	TM323814	1995	Map
Leiston-Aldeburgh			534.8	1,320.9	TM461587	1999	Map
Lineage Wood and Railway Track, Long Melford			78.7	194.4	TL892487	1987	Map
Lingwood Meadows, Earl Stonham			2.7	6.7	TM116584	1993	Map
Little Blakenham Pit			3.4	8.4	TM108491	1993	Map
Little Heath, Barnham			46.3	114.2	TL851781	1984	Map
London Road Industrial Estate, Brandon			0.1	0.3	TL773855	1983	Map
Lordswell Field			3.3	8.1	TL725802	1983	Map
Maidscross Hill			44.8	110.6	TL728822	1986	Map
Major Farm, Braiseworth			1.1	2.8	TM120724	1986	Map
Metfield Meadow			1.3	3.2	TM303798	1987	Map
Mickfield Meadow			1.9	4.6	TM143632	1983	Map
Middle Wood, Offton			23.3	57.6	TM060499	1985	Map
Milden Thicks			42.3	104.5	TL954441	1986	Map
Minsmere-Walberswick Heaths and Marshes			2,327.0	5,747.7	TM486739	1993	Map
Moat Farm Meadows, Otley			3.3	8.2	TM221564	1987	Map
Monewden Meadows			3.7	9.1	TM227571	1983	Map
Nacton Meadows			4.5	11.0	TM231399	1992	Map
Neutral Farm Pit, Butley			1.1	2.6	TM371510	1985	Map
Newbourn Springs			15.7	38.8	TM270435	1986	Map
Norton Wood			24.8	61.2	TL971645	1986	Map
Orwell Estuary			1,335.5	3,298.8	TM234379	2003	Map
Pakefield to Easton Bavents			735.3	1,816.3	TM523829	2005	Map
Pakenham Meadows			6.1	15.1	TL934686	1989	Map
Pashford Poor's Fen, Lakenheath			12.3	30.4	TL730836	1995	Map
Potton Hall Fields, Westleton			16.7	41.3	TM456705	1992	Map
RAF Lakenheath			111.0	274.2	TL746825	1997	Map
Ramsholt Cliff			2.1	5.2	TM297427	1987	Map
Red House Farm Pit, Sudbourne			0.6	1.6	TM435547	1985	Map
Red Lodge Heath			20.8	51.4	TL696700	2005	Map
Redgrave and Lopham Fen^[D]			127.1	313.9	TM047795	1985	Map
Rex Graham Reserve			2.7	6.6	TM047795	1985	Map
Richmond Farm Pit, Gedgrave			0.6	1.5	TM412492	1985	Map
Riverside House Meadow, Hasketon			1.5	3.7	TM244503	1993	Map
Rockhall Wood Pit, Sutton			5.3	13.1	TM304439	1986	Map
Round Hill Pit, Aldeburgh			0.5	1.2	TM444573	1987	Map
Sandlings Forest			2,483.8	6,134.9	TM376570	2000	Map
Sandy Lane Pit, Barham			11.1	27.3	TM135515	1993	Map
Sinks Valley, Kesgrave			24.4	60.1	TM225462	1996	Map
Sizewell Marshes			105.4	260.3	TM459637	1992	Map
Snape Warren			48.0	118.5	TM403576	1989	Map
Sotterley Park			123.2	304.2	TM460856	1985	Map
Sprat's Water And Marshes, Carlton Colville			57.1	141.1	TM507922	1986	Map
Stallode Wash, Lakenheath			34.1	84.1	TL675853	1983	Map
Stanton Woods			66.1	163.3	TL964712	1984	Map
Staverton Park and The Thicks, Wantisden			84.3	208.2	TM355507	1984	Map
Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich			2.2	5.4	TM161432	1990	Map
Stour Estuary^[F]			2,248.0	5,552.6	TM182331	2003	Map
Sudbourne Park Pit			1.1	2.8	TM407513	1985	Map
Sutton and Hollesley Heaths			483.3	1,193.7	TM341467	1987	Map
The Gardens, Great Ashfield			3.7	9.2	TL998680	1987	Map
The Glen Chalk Caves, Bury St. Edmund's			1.6	4.0	TL864646	1986	Map
Thetford Heaths			270.6	668.3	TL851801	1993	Map
Thorpe Morieux Woods			45.2	111.7	TL949552	1985	Map
Titsal Wood, Shadingfield			14.6	36.1	TM426837	1985	Map
Trundley And Wadgell's Wood, Great Thurlow			79.4	196.1	TL694498	1986	Map
Tunstall Common			36.6	90.4	TM377549	1984	Map
Valley Farm Pit, Sudbourne			0.4	1.1	TM435530	1986	Map
Waldringfield Pit			0.1	0.2	TM260448	1991	Map
Wangford Warren and Carr			54.06	133.6	TL757841	1985	Map
Weather and Horn Heaths, Eriswell			133.3	329.3	TL783772	1983	Map
West Stow Heath			44.3	109.4	TL792714	1983	Map
Westhall Wood and Meadow			43.1	106.4	TM029730	1989	Map
Weston Fen			49.9	123.2	TL980786	1986	Map
Wilde Street Meadow			11.6	28.6	TL710791	1983	Map
Wortham Ling			53.2	131.5	TM092794	1990	Map

Notes

^A Data rounded to one decimal place. Figures may differ slightly between sources.

^B Grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system, also known as OSGB36, the system used by the Ordnance Survey.^[4]

^C Link to maps using the MAGIC Map service provided by DEFRA

^D Partly in Norfolk

^E Cattawade Marshes SSSI is almost entirely in Essex

^F Partly in Essex

References

1. How are SSSIs designated, Natural England. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
2. SSSI County Level Reports and Statistics, Natural England. Retrieved 2013-01-18. This includes a small section of Cattawade Marshes which is almost entirely within Essex.
3. English Nature citation sheets for each SSSI. Retrieved 2012-01-21. (PDF files).

   Abbey Wood, Flixton Alde-Ore Estuary Aldeburgh Brick Pit Aldeburgh Hall Pit Arger Fen Bangrove Wood, Ixworth Barking Woods Barnby Broad and Marshes Barnham Heath Bawdsey Cliff Berner's Heath, Icklingham Bixley Heath Black Ditches, Cavenham Blaxhall Heath Blo' Norton and Thelnetham Fen Bobbitshole, Belstead Bradfield Woods Breckland Farmland Breckland Forest Brent Eleigh Woods Buckanay Farm Pit, Alderton Bugg's Hole Fen, Thelnetham Burgate Wood Cattawade Marshes Cavendish Woods Cavenham - Icklingham Heaths Cherry Hill and the Gallops, Barton Mills Chillesford Church Pit Chippenhall Green Combs Wood Cornard Mere, Little Cornard Corton Cliffs Crag Farm Pit, Sudbourne Crag Pit, Aldeburgh Crag Pit, Sutton Cransford Meadow Creeting St Mary Pits Deadman's Grave, Icklingham Deben Estuary Dew's Ponds Edwardstone Woods Elmsett Park Wood Eriswell Low Warren Fakenham Wood and Sapiston Great Grove Ferry Cliff, Sutton Flixton Quarry Fox Fritillary Meadow, Framsden Foxhole Heath, Eriswell

   Freston and Cutler's Woods with Holbrook Park Frithy and Chadacre Woods Gedgrave Hall Pit Gipping Great Wood Glemsford Pits Gosbeck Wood Great Blakenham Pit Gromford Meadow, Snape Groton Wood Gypsy Camp Meadows, Thrandeston Hascot Hill Pit Hay Wood, Whepstead High House Meadows, Monewden Hintlesham Woods Holton Pit Hopton Fen Horringer Court Caves How Hill Track Hoxne Brick Pit Iken Wood Ipswich Heaths Kentwell Woods Knettishall Heath Lackford Lakes Lakenheath Poors Fen Lakenheath Warren Landguard Common Laurel Farm Meadow, St James South Elmham Leiston-Aldeburgh Lineage Wood and Railway Track, Long Melford Lingwood Meadows, Earl Stonham Little Blakenham Pit Little Heath, Barnham London Road Industrial Estate, Brandon Lord's Well Field, Eriswell Maidscross Hill Major Farm, Braiseworth Metfield Meadow Mickfield Meadow Middle Wood Offton Milden Thicks Minsmere-Walberswick Heaths and Marshes Moat Farm Meadows, Otley Monewden Meadows Nacton Meadows Neutral Farm Pit, Butley Newbourn Springs Norton Wood

   Orwell Estuary Pakefield to Easton Bavents Pakenham Meadows Pashford Poor Fen Potton Hall Fields, Westleton RAF Lakenheath Ramsholt Cliff Red House Farm Pit Red Lodge Heath Redgrave and Lopham Fens Rex Graham Reserve Richmond Farm Pit, Gedgrave Riverside House Meadow, Hasketon Rockhall Wood Pit, Sutton Round Hill Pit, Aldeburgh Sandlings Forest Sandy Lane Pit, Barham Sinks Valley, Kesgrave Sizewell Marshes Snape Warren Sotterley Park Sprat's Water and Marshes Stallode Wash, Lakenheath Stanton Woods Staverton Park And The Thicks, Wantisden Stoke Tunnel Cutting Stour Estuary Sudbourne Park Pit Sutton and Hollesley Heaths The Gardens, Great Ashfield The Glen Chalk Caves, Bury St Edmund's Thetford Heaths Thorpe Morieux Woods Titsal Wood, Shadingfield Trundley And Wadgell's Wood, Great Thurlow Tunstall Common Valley Farm Pit, Sudbourne Waldringfield Pit Wangford Warren and Carr Weather and Horn Heaths, Eriswell West Stow Heath Westhall Wood and Meadow Weston Fen Wilde Street Meadow Wortham Ling

4. "Guide to National Grid". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 2006-08-07.