List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater Manchester

Huddersfield Narrow Canal close to Stalybridge.

This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county in North West 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 2006, there are 21 sites designated within this Area of Search, of which 14 have been designated due to their biological interest, 5 due to their geological interest, and 2 for both biological and geological interest.^[2]

Natural England took over the role of designating and managing SSSIs from English Nature in October 2006 when it was formed from the amalgamation of English Nature, parts of the Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service. Natural England, like its predecessor, uses the 1974-1996 county system^[3] and as such the same approach is followed here, rather than splitting these sites between the Lancashire and Cheshire lists. The data in the table is taken from English Nature's website in the form of citation sheets for each SSSI.^[4]

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

Sites

Site name	Reason for Designation		Area^[A]		Grid reference^[B]	Year in which notified	Map^[C]
Site name	Biological interest	Geological interest	Hectares	Acres	Grid reference^[B]	Year in which notified	Map^[C]
Abram Flashes	Y		39.6	98.0	SD610003	1990	Map
Ashclough		Y	5.8	14.3	SD763063 & SD757063	1988	Map
Astley & Bedford Mosses	Y		92.2	227.8	SJ692975	1989	Map
Brookheys Covert	Y		2.4	5.8	SJ742904	1977	Map
Bryn Marsh & Ince Moss	Y		68.3	168.8	SD585025 & SD595025	1989	Map
Compstall Nature Reserve	Y		12.8	31.6	SJ976917	1977	Map
Cotteril Clough	Y		10.3	25.5	SJ805839	1951	Map
Dark Peak^[D]	Y	Y	31,852.9	78,708.4	SK110960	1951	Map
Dunham Park	Y		78.0	192.7	SJ740870	1965	Map
Gale Clough And Shooterslee Wood^[E]	Y		8.6	21.2	SD702141	1979	Map
Highfield Moss	Y		21.3	52.6	SJ614956	1986	Map
Hollinwood Branch Canal	Y		3.3	8.2	SJ910993–SJ920004	1986	Map
Huddersfield Narrow Canal	Y		18.4	45.5	SJ936986–SD981033	1988	Map
Ladcastle and Den Quarries		Y	2.5	6.2	SD995060	1984	Map
Lowside Brickworks		Y	1.4	3.5	SD941041	1989	Map
Ludworth Intake		Y	5.1	12.7	SJ994911	1998	Map
Nob End	Y		8.8	21.7	SD749063	1988	Map
Red Moss	Y		47.2	116.6	SD635104	1995	Map
Rochdale Canal	Y		25.6	63.1	SD937161–SD891009	2000	Map
South Pennine Moors^[F]	Y	Y	20,938.1	51,739.0	SD920300	1994	Map
Tonge River Section		Y	0.7	1.8	SD726095	1987	Map

Notes

^A Data rounded to one decimal place.

^B Grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system, also known as OSGB36, and is the system used by the Ordnance Survey.^[5]

^C Link to maps using the Nature on the Map service provided by Natural England.

^D The Dark Peak site extends into three other counties and so can be found on lists of SSSIs in Derbyshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.^[4]

^E The Gale Clough and Shooterslee Wood site extends into the county of Lancashire and so can be found on the list of SSSIs in Lancashire.^[4]

^F The South Pennine Moors site extends into three other counties and so can be found on lists of SSSIs in Lancashire, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.^[4]

References

↑ "Notification of SSSIs". Natural England. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
↑ "SSSIs in Greater Manchester". Natural England. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
↑ "County search of SSSIs". Natural England. Retrieved 2007-07-02.

1 2 3 4 Natural England citation sheets for each SSSI. Retrieved on 2007-07-02. (PDF files).

"Abram Flashes" (PDF).

"Ashclough" (PDF).

"Astley & Bedford Mosses" (PDF).

"Brookheys Covert" (PDF).

"Bryn Marsh and Ince Moss" (PDF).

"Compstall Nature Reserve" (PDF).

"Cotteril Clough" (PDF).

"Dark Peak" (PDF).

"Dunham Park" (PDF).

"Gale Clough and Shooterslee Wood" (PDF).

"Highfield Moss" (PDF).

"Hollinwood Branch Canal" (PDF).

"Huddersfield Narrow Canal" (PDF).

"Ladcastle & Den Quarries" (PDF).

"Lowside Brickworks" (PDF).

"Ludworth Intake" (PDF).

"Nob End" (PDF).

"Red Moss" (PDF).

"Rochdale Canal" (PDF).

"South Pennine Moors" (PDF).

"Tonge River Section" (PDF).

↑ "Guide to National Grid". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 2007-07-02.

SSSIs in the United Kingdom, grouped by Area of Search

England	Avon Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall County Durham Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Greater London Greater Manchester Hampshire Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Merseyside Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire

Scotland	Angus and Dundee Annandale and Eskdale Badenoch and Strathspey Banff and Buchan Berwickshire and Roxburgh Caithness Clydesdale and South East Glasgow Cumnock and Kyle Dumbarton and North Glasgow Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy East Perth East Ross and Cromarty Edinburgh and West Lothian Falkirk and Clackmannan Gordon and Aberdeen Inverness Islay and Jura Kincardine and Deeside Kintyre Lorne Mid and East Lothian Mid Argyll and Cowal Moray and Nairn Mull, Coll and Tiree Nithsdale North East Fife North Lochaber North West Sutherland North Wester Ross and Cromarty Orkney Renfrew and Cunninghame Rum and the Small Isles Shetland Skye and Lochalsh South East Sutherland South Lochaber South Perth South Wester Ross and Cromarty Stirling Tweeddale and Ettrick and Lauderdale West Perth Western Isles North Western Isles South Wigtown and Stewartry

Wales	Brecknock Carmarthen & Dinefwr Ceredigion Clwyd East Gwynedd Gwent Mid & South Glamorgan Montgomery Preseli & South Pembrokeshire Radnor West Glamorgan West Gwynedd

Northern Ireland	County Antrim County Armagh County Down County Fermanagh County Londonderry County Tyrone

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Metropolitan districts	City of Manchester City of Salford Metropolitan Borough of Bolton Metropolitan Borough of Bury Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough of Stockport Metropolitan Borough of Tameside Metropolitan Borough of Trafford Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

Major settlements	Altrincham Ashton-in-Makerfield (part) Ashton-under-Lyne Atherton Audenshaw Bolton Bredbury Bury Chadderton Clifton Denton Droylsden Dukinfield Eccles Failsworth Farnworth Golborne Heywood Hindley Horwich Hyde Kearsley Leigh Littleborough Manchester Marple Middleton Milnrow Mossley Oldham Partington Pendlebury Prestwich Radcliffe Ramsbottom Rochdale Royton Sale Salford Stalybridge Standish Stockport Stretford Swinton Tottington Tyldesley Urmston Walkden Westhoughton Whitefield Wigan Worsley See also: List of civil parishes in Greater Manchester

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