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England's geological sites

To find out more, select the site you are interested in from the list below.

Definitions of geological terms can be found in the glossary.

• Alum Bay (part of Headon Warren and West High Down SSSI)

• Aust Cliff (SSSI)

• Axmouth - Lyme Regis undercliffs (SSSI and NNR)

• Barnack Hills and Holes (SSSI and NNR)

• Bawdsey Cliff (SSSI)

• Blue Anchor to Lilstock Coast (SSSI)

• Boscastle - Widemouth (SSSI)

• Bradgate Park (SSSI)

• Bredon Hill

• Brown End Quarry (SSSI)

• Burrator Quarries (SSSI)

• Burrington Combe (SSSI)

• Burton Dasset Hills

• Castleton Area (part of Castleton SSSI)

• Caves of Nottingham

• Cleeve Common (SSSI)

• Collyweston Quarries

• Colne Estuary (SSSI)

• Crimsworth Dean (SSSI)

• Cross Hands Quarry (SSSI)

• Dee Cliffs Quarry (SSSI)

• Devil's Punch Bowl (SSSI)

• Doulton's Claypit (SSSI)

• Dry Sandford Pit (SSSI)

• Dryhill (SSSI)

• Dunwich Cliffs

• Durham Coast - Blackhall Rocks (SSSI)

• Ebbor Gorge (SSSI)

• Flamborough Head (SSSI)

• Florence Mine (SSSI)

• Folkestone Warren (SSSI)

• Frodsham Railway and Road Cuttings (SSSI)

• Fyfield Down (SSSI)

• Gait Barrows (SSSI and NNR)

• Gibbet Hill River Cliffs

• Gibraltar Point (SSSI)

• Gilbert's Pit - Charlton (SSSI)

• Gog Magog Hills

• Great Quarry (SSSI) and Old Town Railway Cutting (SSSI)

• Greensand Ridge Walk

• Grime's Graves (SSSI)

• High Force - Teesdale (part of Upper Teesdale SSSI)

• Highcliffe to Milford Cliffs (SSSI)

• Hill End Pit

• Holme Fen (SSSI and NNR)

• Hulme Quarry (SSSI and NNR)

• Hunstanton Cliffs (SSSI)

• Ketton Quarry (SSSI)

• Kilmersdon Road Quarry (SSSI)

• Kimmeridge Bay (part of South Dorset Coast SSSI)

• Kynance Cove (part of West Lizard SSSI)

• Lathkill Dale (SSSI and NNR)

• Leckhampton (part of Leckhampton Hill and Charlton Kings Common SSSI)

• Lindisfarne (SSSI)

• Lowside Brickworks (SSSI)

• Lyme Regis to Bridport (part of West Dorset Coast SSSI) 

• Magdalen Quarry (SSSI)

• Malham - Arncliffe (SSSI)

• Micklefield Quarry (SSSI)

• Newland's Corner

• Newtondale

• Pendle Hill

• Pett Level (SSSI)

• Pitstone Quarry (SSSI)

• Redcar Rocks (SSSI)

• Rifle Butts Quarry (SSSI)

• Robin Hood's Bay - Maw Wyke to Beast Cliff (SSSI)

• Rock Edge Quarry (SSSI)

• Roman Wall (includes the Roman Wall Escarpments SSSI)

• Rusthall Common (SSSI)

• Salt Hill and Bellman Park Quarries (SSSI)

• Saunton to Baggy Point (SSSI)

• Seaford to Beachy Head (SSSI)

• Sedgwick Trail

• Sefton Coast - Ainsdale Sand Dunes

• Shrewley Canal Cutting (SSSI)

• South Elmshall Quarry (SSSI)

• Symonds Yat (part of Wye Vally SSSI)

• The Cheviot (SSSI)

• The Malvern Hills (SSSI)

• The Naze (SSSI)

• The Ridgeway

• The Stiperstones (SSSI and NNR)

• Tilton Railway Cutting (SSSI)

• Totternhoe Stone Pit (SSSI)

• Tunstall Hills and Ryhope Cutting (SSSI)

• Twywell Gullet

• Tynemouth to Seaton Sluice (SSSI)

• Wasdale Screes (SSSI)

• Water End Swallow Holes (SSSI)

• Welton-le-Wold Old Gravel Pits (SSSI)

• Wenlock Edge (SSSI)

• West Runton Cliffs (SSSI)

• Wharncliffe Crags (SSSI)

• Whitecliff Bay (part of Whitecliff Bay and Bembridge Ledges SSSI)

• Whiteleaf Hill

• Wigmore Castle

• Withow Gap - Skipsea (SSSI)

• Wrekin and the Ercall (SSSI)

• Wren's Nest (SSSI and NNR) 

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