The following is a 'list of British conservation sites listed in Derek Ratcliffe's 1979 book A Nature Conservation Review, the two-volume work which set out to identify the most important places for nature conservation in Great Britain.
The following headings, subheadings, site codes and site names are the same as those used in the original work.
Site code | Site name | County | Subsites |
C.1 | Cuckmere Haven - Beachy Head | Sussex | |
C.2 | Folkestone Warren | Kent | |
C.3 | Dungeness | Kent | |
C.4 | Sandwich / Pegwell Bay | Kent | |
C.5 | Chichester / Langstone Harbours | Sussex, Hampshire | (a) Chichester Harbour (b) Langstone Harbour |
C.6 | The Swales (Isle of Sheppey) | Kent | |
C.7 | Burntwick Island / Chetney Marshes (Medway Marshes) | Kent | |
C.8 | High Halstow / Cliffe Marshes | Kent | |
C.9 | Allhallows Marshes / Yantlet Creek | Kent |
Site code | Site name | County | Subsites |
C.10 | Needles - St Catherine's Point | Isle of Wight, Hampshire | |
C.11 | North Solent Marshes | Hampshire | |
C.12 | Newtown Harbour | Isle of Wight, Hampshire |
Site code | Site name | County | Subsites |
C.13 | Foulness and Maplin Sands | Essex | |
C.14 | Blackwater Flats and Marshes | Essex | (a) Dengie Peninsula (b) Blackwater Estuary (c) Colne Estuary |
C.15 | Hamford Water | Essex | |
C.16 | Stour Estuary | Essex | |
C.17 | Orfordness / Havergate Island | Suffolk | |
C.18 | Winterton Dunes | Norfolk | |
C.19 | North Norfolk Coast | Norfolk | (a) Holme - Brancaster (b) Scolt Head Island (c) Overy - Holkham (d) Wells - Morston (e) Blakeney Point (f) Cley - Salthouse |
C.20 | The Wash Flats and Marshes | Norfolk - Lincolnshire | (a) Gibraltar Point - Wrangle (b) Wrangle - Welland (c) Welland - Nene (d) Nene - Ouse (e) Ouse - Hunstanton |
C.21 | Saltfleetby - Theddlethorpe Dunes | Lincolnshire | |
C.22 | Leigh Marsh | Essex |