There seems to be no easily findable and simple list of SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest) in the Forest of Dean - so I created one! The main source is a PDF file on Forest of Dean District Council which is taken from data supplied by English Nature. Both sites are large and rather impenetrable!
However natural England have another site Nature on the Map which is worth investigating - though to my mind it's too "bells and whistles" and not enouh information.
The link in the Name column is to the site citation - English Nature's pdf describing the site. In due course I hope to do photographic pages on some of the sites: links will be in the Map Reference column.
| Name | Parish | Map reference | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarke's Pool Meadow | Awre | SO 668061 | Old grassland, neutral/acidic |
| Upper Severn Estuary | Awre | SO 720060 | Estuarine saltmarsh |
| Woodgreen Quarry & Railway Cutting | Blaisdon | SO 694166 | Geology |
| Blaisdon Hall | Blaisdon | SO 698170 | Bats |
| Malvern Hills (Chase End Hill) | Bromsberrow | SO 766472 | |
| SO 758350 | |||
| Dingle Wood | Coleford | SO 562115 | Woodland, Flora |
| Puddlebrook Quarry | Drybrook | SO 646183 | Geology |
| Dymock Woods | Dymock | SO 684288 | Ancient acidic woodland. Flora. Wild daffodils. |
| SO 692290 | |||
| SO 697283 | |||
| Lower Wye Gorge | English Bicknor | SO 548983 | Woods, fish, otters |
| Brooks Head Grove | English Bicknor | SO 586145 | Woodland |
| Upper Wye Gorge | English Bicknor | SO 560155 | Woodland, Geology |
| Kempley Daffodil Meadow | Kempley | SO 676301 | Unimproved neutral grassland, wild daffodil |
| Dean Hall Coach House & Cellar | Littledean | SO 672130 | Bats |
| Hobbs Quarry | Longhope | SO 695194 | Geology |
| Longhope Hill | Longhope | SO 693185 | Geology |
| May Hill | Longhope | SO 695214 | Botany |
| Lydney Cliff | Lydney | SO 654020 | Geology |
| Land Grove Quarry | Mitcheldean | SO 672185 | Geology |
| Edgehills Quarry | Mitcheldean | SO 660167 | Geology |
| Scully Grove | Mitcheldean | SO 657186 | Geology |
| Stenders Quarry | Mitcheldean | SO 659183 | Geology |
| Westbury Brook Ironstone Mines | Mitcheldean | SO 661166 | Bats |
| Wigpool Ironstone Mine | Mitcheldean | SO 654196 | Bats |
| Astridge Wood | Newland | SO 547088 | Woodland |
| Highbury Wood | Newland | SO 540086 | Woodland |
| Old Bow & Ham Mines | Newland | SO 579088 | Bats |
| Swanpool & Furnace Grove | Newland | SO 541107 | Woodland |
| Tudor Bank Farm | Newland | SO 573081 | Calcareous grassland |
| Collinpark Wood | Pauntley/Upleadon | SO 750278 | Calcifuge lime wood |
| Soudley Ponds | Ruspidge | SO 662122 | Ponds, woodland, wetland, fungi |
| Buckshaft Mine & Bradley Hill Tunnel | Ruspidge | SO 655120 | Bats |
| Bigsweir Woods | St. Briavels/Newland | SO 546060 | Woodland |
| Sylvan House Barn | St. Briavels | SO 534023 | Bats |
| The Hudnalls | St. Briavels | SO 533030 | Woodland |
| SO 540042 | |||
| SO 545046 | |||
| Caerwood and Ashberry House | Tidenham | ST 5471 9655 ST 5464 9657 | Bats |
| Poors Allotment | Tidenham | SO 560990 | Unimproved acidic and calcareous grasslands |
| Pennsylvannia Fields | Tidenham | SO 542929 | brackish wet meadow, dirches |
| Severn Estuary | Tidenham, Woolaston | SO 580960 | |
| Lydney, Aylburton | SO 640000 | ||
| Alvington & Awre | |||
| Shorn Cliff & Caswell Woods | Tidenham | SO 540005 | |
| SO 540990 | |||
| River Wye | Various | SN 803872 | |
| ST 542900 | |||
| Devil's Chapel Scowles | West Dean | SO 606045 | Bats |
| Meezy Hurst | West Dean/Ruspidge | SO 638089 | Geology |
| SO 647091 | |||
| Nagshead | West Dean | SO 608090 | Woodland on coal measure, acid, chalk, ponds |
| Oakenhill Railway Cutting | West Dean | SO 630069 | Geology |
| Speech House Oaks | West Dean/Cinderford | SO 622123 | Oak woods |
| Garden Cliff | Westbury-on-Severn | SO 718128 | Geology |
| Walmore Common | Westbury-on-Severn | SO 740162 | Wet grassland, marsh, ditches, wildfowl |
| SO 745150 | |||
| Slad Brook | St Briavels | SO 564055 |
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