Sites More Than 10,000 Hectares in Size
| Site name | Area of Search | Reason for designation | Area | Grid reference | Year in which notified | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biological interest | Geological interest | Hectares | Acres | |||||
| The Wash | Norfolk / Lincolnshire | Y | 63,135.0 | 156,010.0 | TF550400 | 1972 | ||
| North York Moors | North Yorkshire / Cleveland | Y | 44,087.7 | 108,943.1 | NZ680000 | 1998 | ||
| Humber Estuary | Humberside | Y | Y | 37,000.6 | 91,430.5 | TA216184 | 2004 | |
| Dark Peak | Derbyshire / Greater Manchester / South Yorkshire / West Yorkshire | Y | Y | 31,852.9 | 78,710.2 | SK110960 | 1951 | |
| Morecambe Bay | Cumbria / Lancashire | Y | 30,287.5 | 74,842.0 | SD360700 | 1975 | ||
| Upper Solway Flats and Marshes | Cumbria / ? | Y | Y | 29,950.5 | 74,009.3 | NY160610 | 1988 | |
| The New Forest | Hampshire / Wiltshire | Y | Y | 28,947.4 | 71,530.6 | SU298081 | 1959 | |
| South Pennine Moors | West Yorkshire / Great Manchester / Lancashire / North Yorkshire | Y | Y | 20,938.1 | 51,739.2 | SD920300 | 1994 | |
| Salisbury Plain | Wiltshire / Hampshire | Y | 19,689.9 | 48,654.8 | SU070500 | 1975 | ||
| Breckland Forest | Norfolk / Suffolk | Y | Y | 18,078.7 | 44,673.4 | TL819839 | 2000 | |
| Severn Estuary | Avon / Somerset + others | Y | Y | 15,950.0 | 39,413.3 | ST480830 | 1976 | |
| Upper Teesdale | County Durham | Y | Y | 14,035.6 | 34,682.7 | NY830320 | 1951 | |
| Moorhouse and Cross Fell | Cumbria / County Durham | Y | Y | 13,707.0 | 33,870.7 | NY715365 | 1990 | |
| Dee Estuary | Cheshire / Clwyd | Y | 13,679.7 | 33,803.3 | SJ220800 | 1954 | ||
| Breckland Farmland | Norfolk / Suffolk | Y | 13,335.7 | 32,953.2 | TL762783 | 2000 | ||
| North Dartmoor | Devon | Y | Y | 13,413.2 | 33,144.7 | SX580850 | 1952 | |
| North Exmoor | Devon / Somerset | Y | Y | 12,005.3 | 29,665.7 | SS800430 | 1954 | |
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