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Area
  
765.4 kmĀ²

Notification
  
1960

Phone
  
+44 7840 940838

Durham Coast

Address
  
Horden, Hartlepool TS27 3AA, UK

Areas of search
  
County Durham, Tyne and Wear

Similar
  
Durham Heritage Coast, Castle Eden Dene National, Hartlepool Art Gallery, Natural England

Virgin trains east coast diverts on the durham coast line 16th january 2016


The Durham Coast is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham, England. Starting just south of Crimdon Dene, north of Hartlepool, it extends, with a few interruptions, northward to the mouth of the River Tyne at South Shields.

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The area included in the SSSI includes six Geological Conservation Review sites, including Marsden Bay, a classic study area for coastal geomorphology since the 1950s.

The SSSI is important both for its flora and fauna. It includes most of the paramaritime Magnesian Limestone vegetation found in Britain, a vegetation type that is unique to the Durham coast and that differs markedly from the grassland developed on similar strata elsewhere in lowland Durham.

The Durham coast also supports a variety of birds, including nationally important populations of sanderling, wintering purple sandpiper and breeding little tern. There is also a rich variety of invertebrates, including colonies of the Durham Argus butterfly, Aricia artaxerxes salmacis, and the least minor moth, Photedes captiuncula.

the wensleydale durham coast 21st march 2015


References

Durham Coast Wikipedia


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