List Of Sites Of Special Scientific Interest In Carmarthenshire

picture info	List Of Sites Of Special Scientific Interest In Carmarthenshire This is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in the Carmarthenshire Area of Search (AoS). History This Area of Search was formed from the entirety of the previous AoS of ''Carmarthen & Dinefwr'', as well as having a few sites from the previous AoSs of West Glamorgan, ''Preseli & South Pembrokeshire'' and Brecknock. Sites See also * List of SSSIs by Area of Search References {{SSSI AOS lists Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire ( cy, Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally ') is a county in the south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Carmarthenshire UK Location Map Carmarthenshire ( cy, Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally ') is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as the "Garden of Wales" and is also home to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Carmarthenshire has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The county town was founded by the Romans, and the region was part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth in the High Middle Ages. After invasion by the Normans in the 12th and 13th centuries it was Conquest of Wales by Edward I, subjugated, along with other parts of Wales, by Edward I of England. There was further unrest in the early 15th century, when the Welsh rebelled under Owain Glyndŵr, and during the English Civil War. Carmarthenshire is mainly an agricultural county, apart from the southeastern part which was once heavily industrialised with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Allt Penycoed Stream Section Allt Penycoed Stream Section is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or ''SSSI'') in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is protected by law and has been designated as an SSSI since April 1985 in an attempt to protect rare or unique features or species within it. The site has an area of 1.62 hectares and is managed by Natural Resources Wales. This site is designated due to its geological qualities. In Wales, geological sites range from quarries to rocky outcrops and massive sea-cliffs. 30% of SSSIs in Wales are notified for geological and geomorphological features. This stream section provides valuable information of dense turbidite/shale sequence, demonstrating the base of the member and good sections in the underlying Pibwr mudstones, which shows trilobite faunas representative of major ecological changes related to water depth and oxygenation around 500 million years ago. Trilobites are the fossilized remains of a new extinct group of sea-living arthropods, which have been recorded f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cae Cilmaenllwyd Cae Cilmaenllwyd is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthenshire, Wales.Cae Cilmaenllwyd on Countryside Council for Wales References See also * List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cae Blaen-dyffryn Cae Blaen-dyffryn is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Carmarthen & Dinefwr, Wales. The SSSI is rectangular in shape, approximately by in size, and located some south-south-east of Cwmann. Its southern boundary abuts the A482 road. See also List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen & Dinefwr References External linksCae Blaen-dyffryn SSSImarked on DEFRA DEFRA may refer to: Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, United States law * Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom government department {{Disambiguation ...'s MAGIC Map Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen & Dinefwr {{Carmarthenshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Burry Inlet And Loughor Estuary Burry Inlet and Loughor Estuary is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen, Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the .... See also * List of SSSIs in Carmarthenshire References Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen & Dinefwr Coast of Carmarthenshire {{Carmarthenshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Broad Oak And Thornhill Meadows Broad Oak and Thornhill Meadows is a Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Cross Hands in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The site comprises grassland, formerly used as pasture for horses and cattle. It is a stronghold of the marsh fritillary butterfly. References See also List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen & Dinefwr SSSIs in the UK are notified using the concept of an Area of Search (AOS), an area of between and in size. The Areas of Search were conceived and developed between 1975 and 1979 by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC), based on regions creat ... Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen & Dinefwr Meadows in Wales {{Carmarthenshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bishops Pond Bishops Pond () is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying adjacent to the former palace of the Bishop of St Davids (now the Carmarthenshire County Museum). The pond is an oxbow lake, formed when a meander of the River Tywi got cut off from the main river. The water level is topped up in winter as the river floods the valley floor, and the level drops in summer. The pond exhibits a natural succession from lake through swamp to marsh, and will eventually become meadow; this happens because aquatic plants clog the water and there is a gradual build up of organic detritus. Features Bishops Pond is particularly notable as the best example of an oxbow lake in West Wales. Another feature is the dominant reed sweet-grass, which only occurs in the Tywi Valley and coastal flats. The lake is fringed by reeds, sedges and grasses such as reed sweet-grass, bladder-sedge and branched bur-reed, and yellow water lilies float on the surface of the water in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Birdshill Quarry Birdshill Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Carmarthenshire, Wales. SSSI Birdshill Quarry SSSI is located approximately west of Llandeilo, and covers . The SSSI citation for Birshill Quarry specifies the importance of the site to be the abundant fossils of trilobites, brachiopods and bivalves in an Ashgill Birdshill Limestone strata of the quarry, incorporated as deposits some 425 million years ago. The site has been dated by reference to microfossil A microfossil is a fossil that is generally between 0.001 mm and 1 mm in size, the visual study of which requires the use of light or electron microscopy. A fossil which can be studied with the naked eye or low-powered magnification, ... conodonts found in the strata. See also List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthenshire References External linksSSSI Citationfor Birdshill QuarryCitation mapfor Birdshill Quarry Your Special Site and its Future' - Birdshill SSSI overv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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