{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2011 The following is a list of Special Areas of Conservation in England. * Alde, Ore and Butley Estuaries * Arnecliff and Park Hole Woods *

Arun Valley The River Arun () is a river in the English county of West Sussex. At long, it is the longest river entirely in Sussex and one of the longest starting in Sussex after the River Medway, River Wey and River Mole. From the series of small stream ...

* Asby Complex * Ashdown Forest * Aston Rowant * Avon Gorge Woodlands * Barnack Hills and Holes * Baston Fen * Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats * Beast Cliff – Whitby (Robin Hood's Bay) * Bee's Nest and Green Clay Pits * Beer Quarry and Caves * Benacre to Easton Bavents Lagoons * Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast *

Birklands and Bilhaugh Sherwood Forest is a royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, famous because of its historic association with the legend of Robin Hood. The area has been wooded since the end of the Last Glacial Period (as attested by pollen sampling cores ...

* Blackstone Point * Blean Complex * Bolton Fell Moss *

Border Mires, Kielder – Butterburn Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political borders ca ...

Borrowdale Woodland Complex Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cumberland. It is sometimes referred to as ''Cumberland Borrowdale'' to ...

* Bracket's Coppice * Braunton Burrows *

Breckland Breckland in Norfolk and Suffolk is a 39,433 hectare Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. The SPA partly overlaps the 7,544 hectare Breckland Special Area of Conservation. As a la ...

* Bredon Hill *

Breney Common Breney Common is a nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest, noted for its biological characteristics, in mid Cornwall, England, UK. It is located mainly in Lanlivery civil parish, with the Saints' Way footpath running through it. ...

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Goss and Tregoss Moors Goss Moor is a national nature reserve in Cornwall, England, south-west of Bodmin in the parishes of St Dennis, St Columb Major, Roche and St Enoder. It is the largest continuous mire complex in south-west Britain and consists of mainly peatl ...

Briddlesford Copses Briddleford Copses is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC) which is south of Wootton Bridge on the Isle of Wight in Britain. The site was designated an SAC in 1995 in recognition of the internat ...

Brown Moss Brown Moss is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, Local Nature Reserve and important wetland area rich in wildlife close to Whitchurch, Shropshire. It is open to visitors and contains a number of self-guided walking trails. The name 'moss ...

Burnham Beeches Burnham Beeches is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest situated west of Farnham Common in the village of Burnham, Buckinghamshire. The southern half is owned by the Corporation of London and is open to the public. It is also a Na ...

Butser Hill Butser Hill is a hill and nature reserve in Hampshire, England. South-west of Petersfield, it is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a national nature reserve and a Special Area of Conservation. Part of it i ...

* Calf Hill and Cragg Woods * Cannock Chase *

Cannock Extension Canal The current Cannock Extension Canal is a canal in England. It runs from Pelsall Junction on the Wyrley and Essington Canal, north to Norton Canes Docks and forms part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Historically, it ran to Hednesford, and ...

* Carrine Common *

Castle Eden Dene Castle Eden Dene is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserve in the Easington district of County Durham, England. It is located mostly in Peterlee, between the A19 and A1086 roads. The dene is the largest, and bio ...

* Castle Hill * Cerne and Sydling Downs * Chesil and the Fleet *

Chilmark Quarries Chilmark Quarries () is a 9.65 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), in the ravine south of the village of Chilmark in Wiltshire, England. The SSSI was first notified in 1977. Its importance as a home ...

* Chilterns Beechwoods * Clints Quarry * Cothill Fen * Cotswold Beechwoods * Craven Limestone Complex * Crookhill Brick Pit * Crowdy Marsh * Culm Grasslands * Cumbrian Marsh Fritillary Site * Dartmoor * Dawlish Warren * Denby Grange Colliery Ponds * Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire * Dew's Ponds *

Dixton Wood Dixton Wood () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 2000. Dixton Wood is recognised as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) under the EU Habitats Directive. Location The wood lies in the Cotswold ...

* Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes *

Dorset Heaths The Dorset Heaths form an important area of heathland within the Poole Basin in southern England. Much of the area is protected. Extent According to Natural England, who have designated the Dorset Heaths as National Character Area 135, th ...

Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which runs along the Kent coast between Dover and Kingsdown. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and a Special Area of Conservation, and part o ...

* Downton Gorge * Drigg Coast * Duddon Mosses * Duncton to Bignor Escarpment * Dungeness * Durham Coast *

East Devon Pebblebed Heaths The East Devon Pebblebed Heaths () is an area of rare lowland heath in east Devon, England. Lying inland of the coastal towns of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, it forms a north–south ridge on the western side of the River Otter at heights abov ...

East Hampshire Hangers The East Hampshire Hangers are located in the English county of Hampshire and form a line of hills with steep scarps that marks the eastern edge of the Hampshire Downs and its boundary with the Western Weald, an area of rolling countryside east of ...

Ebernoe Common Ebernoe Common is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ebernoe, north of Petworth in West Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, a national nature reserve and a Special Area of Conservation. It is managed by th ...

* Eller's Wood and Sand Dale * Emer Bog * Ensor's Pool * Epping Forest *

Essex Estuaries Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Gre ...

Eversden and Wimpole Woods Eversden and Wimpole Woods is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Kingston and Orwell in Cambridgeshire. The site has been designated a Special Area of Conservation for its barbastelle ''Barbastella'' is a genus of vesper ...

* Exmoor and Quantock Oakwoods * Exmoor Heaths * Fal and Helford * Fen Bog * Fenland * Fenn's, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses *

Fens Pools Fens Pools () is a 37.6 hectare (92.9 acre) biological site of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands. The site was notified in 1989.Flamborough Head Flamborough Head () is a promontory, long on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea. It is a chalk headland, with sheer white cliffs. The cliff top has two standing lighthouse towers, the olde ...

Folkestone to Etchinghill escarpment Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the northern outskirts of Folkestone in Kent. It is a Special Area of Conservation. An area of is a Nature Conservation Review grassland s ...

* Fontmell and Melbury Downs *

Ford Moss Ford Moss is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), containing a Scheduled Ancient Monument, located south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. The site is managed by the Northumberland Wildlife Trust and gained its SSSI s ...

* Gang Mine *

Gibraltar Point Gibraltar Point may refer to: * Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, a national nature reserve located in England * Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, a lighthouse located in Toronto, Canada * Gibraltar Point Blockhouse, a blockhouse located in Toronto, Canada ...

Godrevy Head to St Agnes Godrevy Head to St Agnes is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in north Cornwall, England], noted for both its Flora and fauna of Cornwall, biological and geological characteristics. A number of rare and scarce plant species can ...

* Great Yews *

Grimsthorpe Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A151 road, and north-west from Bourne. Grimsthorpe falls within the civil parish of Edenham, which is governed by Edenham Grimsthorpe Elsthor ...

* Hackpen Hill *

Haig Fras Haig Fras is a 45 km long submarine granitic rocky outcrop in the southern part of the Celtic Sea, lying about 95 km northwest of the Isles of Scilly. It covers an area of . At one point it reaches within 38 m of the sea surface. It is ...

* Harbottle Moors * Hartslock Wood * Hastings Cliffs * Hatfield Moor * Helbeck and Swindale Woods *

Hestercombe House Hestercombe House is a historic country house in the parish of West Monkton in the Quantock Hills, near Taunton in Somerset, England. The house is a Grade II* listed building and the estate is Grade I listed on the English Heritage Register of ...

* Holme Moor and Clean Moor * Ingleborough Complex * Isle of Portland to Studland Cliffs * Isle of Wight Downs * Isles of Scilly Complex *

Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in six widely separated areas in the floodplains of the River Lambourn in Berkshire and the River Kennet in Wiltshire, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review ...

* Kennet Valley Alderwoods *

Kingley Vale Kingley Vale is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Chichester in West Sussex. It is also a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. An area of is a national nature reserve. The site ...

Kirk Deighton Kirk Deighton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated north-west of Wetherby, to which it is contiguous, and near the A1(M). The village was in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Wether ...

* Lake District High Fells *

Lewes Downs Lewes Downs is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Lewes in East Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I and a Special Area of Conservation. Part of it is a national nature reserve, part is Malling Down ...

( Mount Caburn) *

Little Wittenham Little Wittenham is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish on the south bank of the River Thames, northeast of Didcot in South Oxfordshire. In Local Government Act 1972, 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire to the county of Oxfo ...

* Lower Bostraze and Leswidden * Lower Derwent Valley * Lundy * Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs * Lyppard Grange Ponds * Manchester Mosses * Marsland Valley * Mells Valley * Mendip Limestone Grasslands * Mendip Woodlands * Minsmere to Walberswick Heaths and Marshes *

Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Reigate in Surrey. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and a Special Area of Conservation. Part of it is a Nature Conservation Revi ...

* Moor House – Upper Teesdale *

Morecambe Bay Pavements Morecambe Bay Pavements is a multi-site Special Area of Conservation comprising limestone pavements around Morecambe Bay in North-West England. It was designated in 2005 under the Habitats Directive. The SAC does not include any marine areas; Mo ...

* Morecambe Bay * Mottey Meadows * Mottisfont Bats * Naddle Forest *

Nene Washes Nene may refer to: People *Nene (name), list of people with this name * Nene (aristocrat) (1546–1624), principal samurai wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi * Nené (footballer, 1942-2016), nickname of Brazilian footballer Claudio Olinto de Carvalho * ...

* Newham Fen * Newlyn Downs * Norfolk Valley Fens * North Downs Woodlands * North Meadow and Clattinger Farm * North Norfolk Coast * North Northumberland Dunes * North Pennine Dales Meadows * North Pennine Moors * North Somerset and Mendip Bats *

North York Moors The North York Moors is an upland area in north-eastern Yorkshire, England. It contains one of the largest expanses of Calluna, heather moorland in the United Kingdom. The area was designated as a national parks of England and Wales, National P ...

* Oak Mere * Orfordness – Shingle Street * Orton Pit * Ouse Washes * Overstrand Cliffs * Ox Close * Oxford Meadows * Parkgate Down *

Paston Great Barn Paston Great Barn is a medieval barn near Paston, Norfolk#Paston Hall, Paston Hall on the southeast edge of the village of Paston, Norfolk, Paston in northeast Norfolk, owned by the North Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust. Dating from 1581, the b ...

* Pasturefields Salt Marsh * Peak District Dales * Penhale Dunes * Peter's Pit * Pewsey Downs *

Phoenix United Mine Phoenix United Mine is a disused 19th century copper and tin mine in Cornwall, England, UK. Heavy metals left over in the soil from the mining operations have allowed mosses and lichens to flourish, and today the site is a Site of Special Scien ...

and Crow's Nest * Plymouth Sound and Estuaries *

Polruan to Polperro Polruan to Polperro is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC) in south-east Cornwall, England, UK, noted for its biological interest. It contains a wide variety of plant species and is a site f ...

Portholme Portholme (or Port Holme on Ordnance Survey mapping) is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Parish of Brampton between Huntingdon and Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, and a S ...

Prescombe Down Prescombe Down () is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dors ...

Quants Quants may refer to: * Quants Reserve, a nature reserve in Somerset, England * Quantitative analysts * ''The Quants'', a book by Scott Paterson Scott Thomas Paterson (born 13 May 1972) is a Scottish professional football coach and former playe ...

* Queendown Warren * Rex Graham Reserve * Richmond Park * River Avon * River Axe * River Camel * River Clun * River Dee and Bala Lake * River Derwent and Bassenthwaite Lake * River Derwent * River Eden *

River Ehen The River Ehen is a river in Cumbria, England. The river's source is at the west end of Ennerdale Water: it runs west through Ennerdale Bridge where it is joined by Croasdale Beck (flowing from Banna Fell). Ennerdale Water itself is fed by the ...

* River Itchen *

River Kent The River Kent is a short river in the county of Cumbria in England. It originates in hills surrounding Kentmere, and flows for around 20 miles (32 km) into the north of Morecambe Bay. The upper reaches and the western bank of the estuary ...

River Lambourn The River Lambourn is a chalk stream in the English county of Berkshire. It rises in the Berkshire Downs near its namesake village of Lambourn and is a tributary of the River Kennet, which is itself a tributary of the River Thames. The river ...

* River Mease * River Tweed * River Wensum *

River Wye The River Wye (; cy, Afon Gwy ) is the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, fourth-longest river in the UK, stretching some from its source on Plynlimon in mid Wales to the Severn estuary. For much of its length the river forms part of Wal ...

Rixton Clay Pits Rixton Clay Pits (also known as Rixton Claypits) is a former clay extraction site in Rixton, near Hollins Green, Warrington, England. Formerly farmland, boulder clay extraction started in the 1920s for brick making in the adjacent brickworks, and ...

Rochdale Canal The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. Its name refers to the town of Rochdale through which it passes. The Rochdale is a broad canal beca ...

* Rodborough Common * Roman Wall Loughs * Rook Clift * Rooksmoor * Roudsea Wood and Mosses * Roydon Common and Dersingham Bog *

Salisbury Plain Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering . It is part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern and southern England formed by the rocks of the Chalk Group and largely lies wi ...

Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes is a national nature reserve on the coast of Lincolnshire, England, in the parishes of Saltfleetby and Theddlethorpe. It is managed in part by Natural England; in part by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, and cons ...

* Sandwich Bay * Sefton Coast *

Shortheath Common Shortheath Common is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Bordon in Hampshire. It is also a Local Nature Reserve and a Special Area of Conservation. The common has areas of bracken, woodland, heath and a pond, but its main e ...

* Sidmouth to West Bay * Simonside Hills * Singleton and Cocking Tunnels *

Skipwith Common Skipwith Common is a national nature reserve south of Skipwith, North Yorkshire, England. It is one of only three areas within the Vale of York that represent what the area was like before intensive agriculture took over. Natural England have ...

* Solent and Isle of Wight Lagoons * Solent Maritime * Solway Firth * South Dartmoor Woods * South Devon Shore Dock *

South Hams South Hams is a local government district on the south coast of Devon, England. Services divide between those provided by its own Council headquartered in Totnes, and those provided by Devon County Council headquartered in the city of Exete ...

South Pennine Moors The South Pennine Moors are areas of moorland in the South Pennines in northern England. The designation is applied to two different but overlapping areas, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) covering a number of areas in West Yorkshir ...

South Solway Mosses South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' ...

* South Wight Maritime * St Albans Head to Durlston Head *

St Austell Clay Pits St Austell Clay Pits, (Cornwall, England, UK,) are a group of locations within active china clay quarries that form a single Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation, noted for its biological characteristics. ...

* Staverton Park and The Thicks, Wantisden *

Stodmarsh Stodmarsh is a small village 5 miles to the east of Canterbury in east Kent, England, overlooking the valley of the River Stour. Stodmarsh is now part of the parish of Wickhambreaux. The parish had a 2001 population of 479. The name Stodmarsh ...

* Strensall Common * Subberthwaite, Blawith and Torver Low Commons *

Tarn Moss Tarn may refer to: Places * Tarn (lake), a mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier England * The Tarn, a park, nature reserve, and lake in Mottingham, Royal Borough of Greenwich. * Tarn or Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Eng ...

Thanet Coast Thanet Coast is an biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Whitstable and Ramsgate in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and overlaps two Special Area of Conservatio ...

* The Broads * The Lizard *

The Mens The Mens is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Billingshurst in West Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I and a Special Area of Conservation. An area of south of the A272 road is managed as a nature re ...

The New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featu ...

* The Stiperstones and The Hollies * The Wash and North Norfolk Coast *

Thorne Moors Thorne and Hatfield Moors form the largest area of lowland raised peat bog in the United Kingdom. They are situated in South Yorkshire, to the north-east and east of Doncaster near the town of Thorne, and are part of Hatfield Chase. They had ...

* Thrislington * Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham * Tintagel–Marsland–Clovelly Coast * Tregonning Hill * Tweed Estuary * Tyne and Allen River Gravels * Tyne and Nent * Ullswater Oakwoods *

Walton Moss Walton may refer to: People * Walton (given name) * Walton (surname) * Susana, Lady Walton (1926–2010), Argentine writer Places Canada * Walton, Nova Scotia, a community **Walton River (Nova Scotia) *Walton, Ontario, a hamlet United Kingdom ...

Wast Water Wast Water or Wastwater () is a lake located in Wasdale, a valley in the western part of the Lake District National Park, England. The lake is almost long and more than wide. It is a glacial lake, formed in a glacially 'over-deepened' valley. ...

* Waveney and Little Ouse Valley Fens *

West Dorset Alder Woods West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some R ...

* West Midlands Mosses * Wimbledon Common *

Windsor Forest and Great Park Windsor Forest and Great Park is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire and Surrey, located south of Windsor. It is a Special Area of Conservation and Windsor Forest is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Landsca ...

* Winterton – Horsey Dunes * Witherslack Mosses * Woolmer Forest * Wormley Hoddesdonpark Woods *

Wye and Crundale Downs Wye and Crundale Downs is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in a number of separate areas east of Ashford in Kent. It is a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. and it is p ...

* Wye Valley and Forest of Dean Bat Sites * Wye Valley Woodlands * Yewbarrow Woods

Sources

SACs in the United Kingdom
– Joint Nature Conservation Committee Lists of protected areas of the United Kingdom

Special Areas of Conservation in England Special or specials may refer to: Policing * Specials, Ulster Special Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police force * Specials, Special Constable, an auxiliary, volunteer, or temporary; police worker or police officer Literature * ''Specia ...

See also

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