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List of Nature Conservation Review sites

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6591632 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

Coastlands

Southeast England

South England

East Anglia

South-west England

C.23 Poole Harbour, Dorset

C.24 Durlston Head – Ringstead Bay, Dorset

C.25 Chesil Beach / The Fleet, Dorset

C.26 Axmouth – Lyme Regis Undercliffs, Devon

C.27 The Lizard, Cornwall

C.28 Isles of Scilly

C.29 Cape Cornwall – Clodgy Point, Cornwall

C.30 Godrevy Point – St. Agnes, Cornwall

C.31 Boscastle to Widemouth, Cornwall

C.32 Steeple Point – Blackchurch Rock, Cornwall – Devon

C.33 Braunton Burrows, Devon

C.34 Bridgwater Bay, Somerset

C.35 New Grounds, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire

C.36 Exe Estuary, Devon

C.37 Lynher Estuary and St.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “List of Nature Conservation Review sites” as wikimedia list article. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, Nature and Conservation can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia list article. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6591632. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Nature Conservation Review sites” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.