List of Special Protection Areas in the United Kingdom

This is a list of Special Protection Area in the United Kingdom.

England

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! Site Name !! Local Authority !! Site Code !! Map Reference

! Abberton Reservoir

| Essex || UK9009141 ||

! Alde-Ore Estuary

| Suffolk || UK9009112 ||

! Alt Estuary (part of Ribble and Alt Estuaries Phase 2)

| Merseyside || UK9005102 ||

! Arun Valley

| West Sussex || UK9020281 ||

! Ashdown Forest

| East Sussex || UK9012181 ||

! Avon Valley

| Dorset Hampshire || UK9011091 ||

! Benacre to Easton Bavents

| Suffolk || UK9009291 ||

! Benfleet and Southend Marshes

| Essex Southend-on-Sea || UK9009171 ||

! Blackwater Estuary (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 4)

| Essex || UK9009245 ||

! Bowland Fells

| Lancashire || UK9005151 ||

! Breydon Water

| Norfolk || UK9009181 ||

! Broadland

| Norfolk Suffolk || UK9009253 ||

! Chesil Beach and The Fleet

| Dorset || UK9010091 ||

! Chew Valley Lake

| Bath and North East Somerset || UK9010041 ||

! Chichester and Langstone Harbours

| City of Portsmouth Hampshire West Sussex || UK9011011 ||

! Colne Estuary (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 2)

| Essex || UK9009243 ||

! Coquet Island

| Northumberland || UK9006031 ||

! Crouch and Roach Estuaries (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 3)

| Essex || UK9009244 ||

! Deben Estuary SSSI

| Suffolk || UK9009261 ||

! Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1)

| Essex || UK9009242 ||

! Dorset Heathlands

| Bournemouth Dorset Hampshire Poole || UK9010101 ||

! Duddon Estuary

| Cumbria || UK9005031 ||

! Dungeness to Pett Level

| East Sussex Kent || UK9012091 ||

! East Devon Heaths

| Devon || UK9010121 ||

! Exe Estuary

| Devon || UK9010081 ||

! Farne Islands

| Northumberland || UK9006021 ||

! Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs

| East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire || UK9006101 ||

! Foulness (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 5)

| Essex || UK9009246 ||

! Gibraltar Point

| Lincolnshire || UK9008022 ||

! Great Yarmouth North Denes

| Norfolk || UK9009271 ||

! Hamford Water

| Essex || UK9009131 ||

! Holburn Lake and Moss

| Northumberland || UK9006041 ||

! Hornsea Mere

| East Riding of Yorkshire || UK9006171 ||

! Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Phase 1

| East Riding of Yorkshire North Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire || UK9006111 ||

! Isles of Scilly

| Isles of Scilly || UK9020288 ||

! Lee Valley

| Essex Greater London Hertfordshire || UK9012111 ||

! Leighton Moss

| Lancashire || UK9005091 ||

! Lindisfarne

| Northumberland || UK9006011 ||

! Lower Derwent Valley

| East Riding of Yorkshire North Yorkshire || UK9006092 ||

! Marazion Marsh

| Cornwall || UK9020289 ||

! Martin Mere

| Lancashire || UK9005111 ||

! Medway Estuary and Marshes

| Kent Medway || UK9012031 ||

! Mersey Estuary

| Cheshire Halton Liverpool Wirral || UK9005131 ||

! Minsmere-Walberswick

| Suffolk || UK9009101 ||

! Moor House (Durham) (part of North Pennine Moors)

| County Durham || UK9006271 ||

! Morecambe Bay

| Cumbria Lancashire || UK9005081 ||

! Nene Washes

| Cambridgeshire City of Peterborough || UK9008031 ||

! New Forest

| Hampshire Wiltshire || UK9011031 ||

! North Norfolk Coast

| Norfolk || UK9009031 ||

! North Pennine Moors

| Cumbria Durham North Yorkshire Northumberland || UK9006272 ||

! North York Moors

| North Yorkshire Redcar and Cleveland || UK9006161 ||

! Northumbria Coast

| Durham North Tyneside Northumberland South Tyneside City of Sunderland || UK9006131 ||

! Old Hall Marshes (part of Blackwater Estuary)

| Essex || UK9009241 ||

! Orford Ness – Havergate (part of Alde–Ore Estuary)

| Suffolk || UK9009111 ||

! Ouse Washes

| Cambridgeshire Norfolk || UK9008041 ||

! Pagham Harbour

| West Sussex || UK9012041 ||

! Peak District Moors (South Pennine Moors Phase 1)

| || UK9007021 ||

! Poole Harbour

| Dorset Poole || UK9010111 ||

! Porton Down

| Hampshire Wiltshire || UK9011101 ||

! Portsmouth Harbour

| City of Portsmouth Hampshire || UK9011051 ||

! Ribble and Alt Estuaries

| - || UK9005103 ||

! Ribble Estuary (part of Ribble and Alt Estuaries Phase 2)

| Lancashire Merseyside || UK9005101 ||

! Rockcliffe Marsh (part of Upper Solway Flats and Marshes)

| Cumbria || UK9005011 ||

! Rutland Water

| Rutland || UK9008051 ||

! Salisbury Plain

| Hampshire Wiltshire || UK9011102 ||

! Sandlings

| Suffolk || UK9020286 ||

! Solent and Southampton Water

| Hampshire Isle of Wight Southampton || UK9011061 ||

! Somerset Levels and Moors

| Somerset || UK9010031 ||

! South Pennine Moors Phase 2

| - || UK9007022 ||

! South West London Waterbodies

| Greater London Surrey Windsor and Maidenhead || UK9012171 ||

! Stodmarsh

| Kent || UK9012121 ||

! Stour and Orwell Estuaries

| Essex Suffolk || UK9009121 ||

! Tamar Estuaries Complex

| City of Plymouth Cornwall Devon || UK9010141 ||

! Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast

| Hartlepool Redcar and Cleveland Stockton-on-Tees || UK9006061 ||

!Thames Basin Heaths

|Surrey

Berkshire

Hampshire

|UK9012141

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! Thames Estuary and Marshes

| Kent Medway Thurrock || UK9012021 ||

! Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay

| Kent || UK9012071 ||

! The Swale

| Kent || UK9012011 ||

! The Wash

| Lincolnshire Norfolk || UK9008021 ||

! Thorne and Hatfield Moors

| Doncaster East Riding of Yorkshire North Lincolnshire || UK9005171 ||

! Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons (Wealden Heaths Phase 1)

| Surrey || UK9012131 ||

! Upper Severn Estuary (part of Severn Estuary)

| Gloucestershire || UK9015021 ||

! Walmore Common

| Gloucestershire || UK9007051 ||

! Wealden Heaths (Phase 2)

| Hampshire || UK9012132 ||

Scotland

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! Site Name !! Local Authority !! Site Code !! Map Reference

! Abernethy Forest

| Highland || UK9002561 ||

! Achanalt Marshes

| Highland || UK9001701 ||

! Ailsa Craig

| South Ayrshire || UK9003091 ||

! Aird & Borve, Benbecula

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001751 ||

! Arran Moors

| North Ayrshire || UK9003341 ||

! Assynt Lochs

| Highland || UK9001591 ||

! Auskerry

| Orkney Islands || UK9002381 ||

! Ballochbuie

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002781 ||

! Beinn Dearg

| Highland || UK9001631 ||

! Ben Alder

| Highland || UK9002551 ||

! Ben Wyvis

| Highland || UK9001641 ||

! Black Cart

| Renfrewshire || UK9003221 ||

! Bridgend Flats, Islay

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003052 ||

! Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002491 ||

! Caenlochan

| Aberdeenshire Angus Perth and Kinross || UK9004011 ||

! Cairngorms

| Aberdeenshire Highland || UK9002241 ||

! Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands

| Highland || UK9001151 ||

! Caithness Lochs

| Highland || UK9001171 ||

! Calf of Eday

| Orkney Islands || UK9002431 ||

! Cameron Reservoir

| Fife || UK9004131 ||

! Canna and Sanday

| Highland || UK9001431 ||

! Cape Wrath

| Highland || UK9001231 ||

! Castle Loch, Lochmaben

| Dumfries and Galloway || UK9003191 ||

! Cnuic agus Cladach Mhuile

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003311 ||

! Coll

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003031 ||

! Coll (corncrake)

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003033 ||

! Copinsay

| Orkney Islands || UK9002151 ||

! Craigmore Wood

| Highland || UK9001801 ||

! Creag Meagaidh

| Highland || UK9002161 ||

! Cromarty Firth

| Highland || UK9001623 ||

! Cuillins

| Highland || UK9001781 ||

! Din Moss – Hoselaw Loch

| Scottish Borders || UK9004291 ||

! Dornoch Firth and Loch Fleet

| Highland || UK9001622 ||

! Drumochter Hills

| Highland Perth and Kinross || UK9002301 ||

! East Caithness Cliffs

| Highland || UK9001182 ||

! East Sanday Coast

| Orkney Islands || UK9002331 ||

! Eilean na Muice Duibhe (Duich Moss), Islay

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003054 ||

! Eoligarry, Barra

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001761 ||

! Fair Isle

| Shetland Islands || UK9002091 ||

! Fala Flow

| Midlothian || UK9004241 ||

! Fetlar

| Shetland Islands || UK9002031 ||

! Feur Lochain (part of Rinns of Islay)

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003056 ||

! Firth of Forth

| City of Edinburgh Clackmannanshire East Lothian Falkirk Fife Stirling West Lothian || UK9004411 ||

! Firth of Tay & Eden Estuary

| Dundee City Fife Perth and Kinross || UK9004121 ||

! Flannan Isles

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001021 ||

! Forest of Clunie

| Perth and Kinross || UK9004381 ||

! Forth Islands

| East Lothian City of Edinburgh Fife || UK9004171 ||

! Foula

| Shetland Islands || UK9002061 ||

! Fowlsheugh

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002271 ||

! Glac na Criche (part of Rinns of Islay)

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003055 ||

! Gladhouse Reservoir

| Midlothian || UK9004231 ||

! Glas Eileanan

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003211 ||

! Glen App and Galloway Moors

| Dumfries and Galloway South Ayrshire || UK9003351 ||

! Glen Tanar

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002771 ||

! Greenlaw Moor

| Scottish Borders || UK9004281 ||

! Gruinart Flats, Islay

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003051 ||

! Handa

| Highland || UK9001241 ||

! Hermaness, Saxa Vord and Valla Field

| Shetland Islands || UK9002011 ||

! Hoy

| Orkney Islands || UK9002141 ||

! Inner Clyde Estuary

| Argyll and Bute Inverclyde Renfrewshire West Dunbartonshire || UK9003061 ||

! Inner Moray Firth

| Highland || UK9001624 ||

! Inverpolly, Loch Urigill and Nearby Lochs

| Highland || UK9001511 ||

! Kilpheder to Smerclate, South Uist

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001083 ||

! Kintyre Goose Roosts

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003071 ||

! Kinveachy Forest

| Highland || UK9002581 ||

! Knapdale Lochs

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003301 ||

! Laggan, Islay

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003053 ||

! Lairg and Strathbrora Lochs

| Highland || UK9001611 ||

! Langholm – Newcastleton Hills

| Dumfries and Galloway Scottish Borders || UK9003271 ||

! Lewis Peatlands

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001571 ||

! Loch Ashie

| Highland || UK9001554 ||

! Loch Druidibeg, Loch a' Machair and Loch Stilligarry (part of South Uist Machair and Lochs)

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001081 ||

! Loch Eye

| Highland || UK9001621 ||

! Loch Flemington

| Highland || UK9001691 ||

! Loch Ken and River Dee Marshes

| Dumfries and Galloway || UK9003111 ||

! Loch Knockie and Nearby Lochs

| Highland || UK9001552 ||

! Loch Leven

| Perth and Kinross || UK9004111 ||

! Loch Lomond

| Argyll and Bute Stirling West Dunbartonshire || UK9003021 ||

! Loch Maree

| Highland || UK9001531 ||

! Loch of Inch and Torrs Warren

| Dumfries and Galloway || UK9003121 ||

! Loch of Kinnordy

| Angus || UK9004051 ||

! Loch of Lintrathen

| Angus || UK9004061 ||

! Loch of Skene

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002261 ||

! Loch of Strathbeg

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002211 ||

! Loch Ruthven

| Highland || UK9001551 ||

! Loch Shiel

| Highland || UK9001721 ||

! Loch Spynie

| Moray || UK9002201 ||

! Loch Vaa

| Highland || UK9002751 ||

! Lochnagar

| Aberdeenshire Angus || UK9002281 ||

! Lochs of Spiggie and Brow

| Shetland Islands || UK9002651 ||

! Marwick Head

| Orkney Islands || UK9002121 ||

! Mingulay and Berneray

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001121 ||

! Mointeach Scadabhaigh

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001501 ||

! Monach Islands

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001071 ||

! Montrose Basin

| Angus || UK9004031 ||

! Morangie Forest

| Highland || UK9001791 ||

! Moray and Nairn Coast

| Highland Moray || UK9001625 ||

! Mousa

| Shetland Islands || UK9002361 ||

! Muir of Dinnet

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002791 ||

! Muirkirk and North Lowther Uplands

| Dumfries and Galloway East Ayrshire South Lanarkshire || UK9003261 ||

! Ness & Barvas, Lewis

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001741 ||

! North Caithness Cliffs

| Highland || UK9001181 ||

! North Colonsay and Western Cliffs

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003171 ||

! North Harris Mountains

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001572 ||

! North Inverness Lochs

| Highland || UK9001553 ||

! North Rona and Sula Sgeir

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001011 ||

! North Sutherland Coastal Islands

| Highland || UK9001211 ||

! North Uist Machair and Islands

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001051 ||

! Noss

| Shetland Islands || UK9002081 ||

! Orkney Mainland Moors

| Orkney Islands || UK9002311 ||

! Otterswick and Graveland

| Shetland Islands || UK9002941 ||

! Papa Stour

| Shetland Islands || UK9002051 ||

! Papa Westray (North Hill and Holm)

| Orkney Islands || UK9002111 ||

! Pentland Firth Islands

| Orkney Islands || UK9001131 ||

! Priest Island (Summer Isles)

| Highland || UK9001261 ||

! Ramna Stacks and Gruney

| Shetland Islands || UK9002021 ||

! Rannoch Lochs

| Argyll and Bute Highland Perth and Kinross || UK9004021 ||

! Rinns of Islay

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003057 ||

! River Spey – Insh Marshes

| Highland || UK9002231 ||

! Ronas Hill – North Roe and Tingon

| Shetland Islands || UK9002041 ||

! Rousay

| Orkney Islands || UK9002371 ||

! Rùm

| Highland || UK9001341 ||

! Shiant Isles

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001041 ||

! Sléibhtean agus Cladach Thiriodh (Tiree Wetlands and Coast)

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003032 ||

! South Tayside Goose Roosts

| Perth and Kinross || UK9004401 ||

! South Uist Machair and Lochs

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001082 ||

! St Abb's Head to Fast Castle

| Scottish Borders || UK9004271 ||

! St Kilda

| Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar || UK9001031 ||

! Sule Skerry and Sule Stack

| Orkney Islands || UK9002181 ||

! Sumburgh Head

| Shetland Islands || UK9002511 ||

! Switha

| Orkney Islands || UK9002891 ||

! Tips of Corsemaul and Tom Mór

| Aberdeenshire Moray || UK9002811 ||

! Tiree (corncrake)

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003034 ||

! Treshnish Isles

| Argyll and Bute || UK9003041 ||

! Troup, Pennan and Lion's Heads

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002471 ||

! West Westray

| Orkney Islands || UK9002101 ||

! Wester Ross Lochs

| Highland || UK9001711 ||

! Westwater

| Scottish Borders || UK9004251 ||

! Ythan Estuary, Sands of Forvie and Meikle Loch

| Aberdeenshire || UK9002221 ||

Wales

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! Site Name !! Local Authority !! Site Code !! Map Reference

! Aberdaron Coast and Bardsey Island /Glannau Aberdaron and Ynys Enlli

| Gwynedd || UK9013121 ||

! Berwyn

| Denbighshire Gwynedd Powys Wrexham || UK9013111 ||

! Bird's Rock /Craig yr Aderyn

| Gwynedd || UK9020283 ||

! Burry Inlet

| Swansea Carmarthenshire || UK9015011 ||

! Castlemartin Coast

| Pembrokeshire || UK9014061 ||

! Carmarthen Bay /Bae Caerfyrddin

| Carmarthenshire || UK9014091 ||

! Dyfi Estuary / Aber Dyfi

| Ceredigion Gwynedd Powys || UK9020284 ||

! Elenydd – Mallaen

| Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Powys || UK9014111 ||

! Flat Holm

| South Glamorgan || ||

! Grassholm

| Pembrokeshire || UK9014041 ||

! Holy Island Coast /Glannau Ynys Gybi

| Isle of Anglesey || UK9013101 ||

! Lavan Sands/Traeth Lafan, Conwy Bay

| Conwy Gwynedd || UK9013031 ||

! Migneint–Arenig–Dduallt

| Conwy Gwynedd || UK9013131 ||

! Mynydd Cilan, Trwyn y Wylfa ac Ynysoedd Sant Tudwal

| Gwynedd || UK9020282 ||

! Ramsey Island and St David's Peninsula Coast

| Pembrokeshire || UK9014062 ||

! Skokholm and Skomer

| Pembrokeshire || UK9014051 ||

! Ynys Feurig, Cemlyn Bay and The Skerries

| Isle of Anglesey || UK9013061 ||

! Ynys Seiriol / Puffin Island

| Isle of Anglesey || UK9020285 ||

Northern Ireland

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! Site Name !! Local Authority !! Site Code !! Map Reference

! Belfast Lough

| Northern Ireland || UK9020101 ||

! Carlingford Lough

| Northern Ireland || UK9020161 ||

! Larne Lough

| Northern Ireland || UK9020042 ||

! Lough Foyle

| Northern Ireland || UK9020031 ||

! Lough Neagh and Lough Beg

| Northern Ireland || UK9020091 ||

! Pettigoe Plateau

| Northern Ireland || UK9020051 ||

! Rathlin Island

| Northern Ireland || UK9020011 ||

! Sheep Island

| Northern Ireland || UK9020021 ||

! Strangford Lough

| Northern Ireland || UK9020111 ||

! Swan Island (part of Larne Lough)

| Northern Ireland || UK9020041 ||

! Upper Lough Erne

| Northern Ireland || UK9020071 ||

External links

Official map showing location of special protection areas in the UK