Gerrans Bay to Camels Cove is a coastal

Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...

(SSSI) in south

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, UK, noted for both its

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and geological interest.

Geography

The site, notified in 1951, is situated on the south Cornish coast of the

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, south-east of the city of Truro. It starts at Creek Stephen Point in the west, following the coast of Gerrans Bay to Nare Head and then on to Manare Point, near

Portloe Portloe ( kw, Porthlogh) is a small village in Cornwall, England, on the Roseland Peninsula, in the civil parish of Veryan. Portloe harbours two full-time working fishing vessels, the ''Jasmine'' and ''Katy Lil'', which fish for crab and lobst ...

in the east and also includes Gull Rock off the coast.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' The

South West Coast Path The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail. It stretches for , running from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harbour in Dorset. Because it rises a ...

runs through the SSSI and most of the coastline is owned by the

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. The site lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

History

This site is an amalgamation of two previous SSSIs; ''Gerrans Bay to Nare Head SSSI'' and ''Camels Cove SSSI''.

References

{{SSSIs Cornwall geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1951 National Trust properties in Cornwall Cornish coast