Sunbiggin Tarn Explained

Sunbiggin Tarn & Moors and Little Asby Scar
Aos:Cumbria
Interest:Biological/Geological
Coordinates:54.4634°N -2.5029°W
Map:Magic Map (Defra)
Area:1000.435ha for the full SSSI
Notifydate:30 November 1994
Enref:1007193

Sunbiggin Tarn is a tarn near Sunbiggin in Cumbria. It is in a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which also includes the surrounding moorland and limestone pavement of Little Asby Scar.

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Flora

common bent, mother of thyme, sheep fescue, Sesleria albicans, Galium sterneri grasslandCalluna vulgaris Erica cinerea, Vaccinium myrtillus heathScirpus cespitosus, Erica tetralix wet heathCarex elata, Equisetum fluviatile, Cladium mariscus, Carex rostrata, Potentilla palustris, Phragmites australis swamp, sedge and reed-beds

Fauna

black-headed gull, gadwall, little grebe, osprey, starling, water rail, wigeon Geyer's whorl snail

Geology

Dinantian, Karst