Sites More Than 1000 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 | |||||
| Upper Severn Estuary | Gloucestershire | Y | 1,436.8 | 3,550.4 | SO720060 | 1954 | ||
| Tamar - Tavy Estuary | Cornwall / Devon | Y | 1,422.3 | 3,514.6 | SX474650 | 1991 | ||
| Hatfield Moors | South Yorkshire | Y | 1,400.7 | 3,461.2 | SE705060 | 1954 | ||
| Avon Valley (Bickton to Christchurch) | Dorset / Hampshire | Y | 1,383.7 | 3,419.2 | TU147123 | 1974 | ||
| Braunton Burrows | Devon | Y | Y | 1,356.7 | 3,352.5 | SS430350 | 1952 | |
| Taw-Torridge Estuary | Devon | Y | 1,336.5 | 3,302.6 | SS470310 | 1981 | ||
| Nene Washes | Cambridgeshire | Y | 1,310.0 | 3,237.1 | TL200977 | 1959 | ||
| Portsmouth Harbour | Hampshire | Y | 1,266.1 | 3,128.6 | SU620035 | 1974 | ||
| East Devon Pebblebed Heaths | Devon | Y | 1,111.9 | 2,747.6 | SY050880 | 1952 | ||
| Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors | Somerset | Y | 1,083.0 | 2,676.2 | ST390420 | 1967 | ||
| West Sedgemoor | Somerset | Y | 1,016.0 | 2,510.6 | ST361258 | 1983 | ||
| Haldon Forest | Devon | Y | 1,013.2 | 2,503.7 | SX886838 | 1992 | ||
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