List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gwent

For data relating to SSSIs in this Area of Search see List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, and Torfaen.

Gwent AOS

SSSIs in the UK are notified using the concept of an Area of Search (AOS), an area of between 400 km² (150 sq mi) and 4,000 km² (1,500 sq mi) in size.^[1] The Areas of Search were conceived and developed between 1975 and 1979 by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC), based on regions created by the Local Government Act 1972.^[2] Whereas England had its Areas of Search based on 46 counties, those in Wales were based on a combination of the counties and smaller districts. In 1974, Wales was divided into 8 counties, with 37 districts. The NCC created 12 Welsh Areas of Search; they mostly follow county borders, but the larger counties (Dyfed, Powys and Gwynedd) were divided into multiple Areas using district borders. Mid and South Glamorgan were merged into a single AOS, whilst Llanelli district was included in the West Glamorgan AOS.

Due to subsequent local government reorganisation in the UK since 1972, many counties and districts have been divided, merged or renamed. Using the AOS system alone would make it difficult to search for individual SSSI citations via the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) database without knowing 1972 region divisions. As a result, the CCW groups Welsh SSSIs using the subdivisions of Wales formed in April 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, resulting in 22 principal areas.

Gwent AOS lies within the counties of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, and Torfaen.

For SSSIs elsewhere in the UK, see List of SSSIs by Area of Search.

References

↑ Joint Nature Conservation Committee (1998 revision); Guidelines for the Selection of Biological SSSIs, section 4.11, p. 17. ISBN 1873701721.
↑ Joint Nature Conservation Committee (1998 revision); Guidelines for the Selection of Biological SSSIs, section 4.5, pp. 14–15. ISBN 1873701721.

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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List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gwent

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References