Causey Bank Mires
54°54′11″N 1°40′41″W / 54.90306°N 1.67806°W / 54.90306; -1.67806
Causey Bank Mires is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Derwentside district of County Durham, England. It lies alongside and to the west of the Tanfield Railway, just under 1 km north of the Causey Arch.
The site consists of a series of flushes with scrub, surrounded by acid and neutral grassland, a habitat with a restricted distribution in County Durham. A number of locally rare plant species are found in the area, including globe-flower, Trollius europaeus. [1]
References
- ^ "Causey Bank Mires : Reasons for SSSI status" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
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- Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods
- Baldersdale Woodlands
- Bishop Middleham Quarry
- Bollihope, Pikestone, Eggleston and Woodland Fells
- Botany Hill
- Bowes Moor
- Bowlees and Friar House Meadows
- Brasside Pond
- Brignall Banks
- Burnhope Burn
- Butterby Oxbow
- Cassop Vale
- Castle Eden Dene
- Causey Bank Mires
- Charity Land
- Close House Mine
- Cornriggs Meadows
- Cotherstone Moor
- Crag Gill
- Crime Rigg and Sherburn Hill Quarries
- Dabble Bank
- Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
- Durham Coast
- Fairy Holes Cave
- Far High House Meadows
- Fishburn Grassland
- Foster's Hush
- Frog Wood Bog
- God's Bridge
- Grains o' th' Beck Meadows
- Green Croft and Langley Moor
- Greenfoot Quarry
- Hannah's Meadows
- Hawthorn Dene
- Hawthorn Quarry
- Hell Kettles
- Hesledon Moor East
- Hesledon Moor West
- Hexhamshire Moors
- Hisehope Burn Valley
- Hulam Fen
- Hunder Beck Juniper
- Kilmond Scar
- Low Redford Meadows
- Lune Forest
- Mere Beck Meadows
- Middle Crossthwaite
- Middle Side and Stonygill Meadows
- Middleton Quarry
- Middridge Quarry
- Moorhouse and Cross Fell
- Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor
- Neasham Fen
- Newton Ketton Meadow
- Old Moss Lead Vein
- Park End Wood
- Pig Hill
- Pike Whin Bog
- Pittington Hill
- Pow Hill Bog
- Quarrington Hill Grasslands
- Railway Stell West
- Raisby Hill Grassland
- Raisby Hill Quarry
- Redcar Field
- Rigg Farm and Stake Hill Meadows
- Rogerley Quarry
- Sherburn Hill
- Shipley and Great Woods
- Sleightholme Beck Gorge – The Troughs
- Slit Woods
- Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon
- Teesdale Allotments
- The Bottoms
- The Carrs
- Thrislington Plantation
- Town Kelloe Bank
- Trimdon Limestone Quarry
- Tuthill Quarry
- Upper Teesdale
- Waldridge Fell
- West Newlandside Meadows
- West Park Meadows
- West Rigg Open Cutting
- Westernhope Burn Wood
- Wingate Quarry
- Witton-le-Wear
- Yoden Village Quarry
- Neighbouring areas
- Cleveland
- Northumberland
- Tyne and Wear
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