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Finchale Priory

Other Sites

County Durham has a wide variety of wildlife sites to visit. The top ten sites are detailed elsewhere, as are sites that are good examples of particular wildlife habitat types.

This collection of 'other sites to visit' do not have such a high nature conservation interest as the other groups, but still have a variety of plants and animals worth seeing. Some sites have rare fauna and flora, while others provide the opportunity to see a range of habitats in one trip: the railway paths are a good example of this. These sites are listed below and can be picked from the map shown by their corresponding number.

Map of County Durham wildlife sites



  1. Allensford Wood
  2. Aycliffe Nature Park
  3. Beamish Burn Wood
  4. Black Plantation
  5. Blackton Reservoir
  6. Burnhope Pond
  7. Burnhope Reservoir
  8. Causey Arch Wood
  9. Cocken Wood
  10. Collier Wood
  11. Cong Burn Wood Local Nature Reserve
  12. Cow Plantation
  13. Coxhoe Hall Wood and Coxhoe Quarry Wood Local Nature Reserves
  14. Crow Trees Local Nature Reserve
  15. Deerness Valley Railway Path
  16. Delight Bank
  17. Derwent Reservoir
  18. Derwent Valley Railway Path
  19. Edmondsley Wood
  20. Elemore Woods
  21. Flass Vale
  22. Greencroft Heath Local Nature Reserve
  23. Harelaw Heath
  24. Hellhole Wood
  25. Hury Reservoir
  26. Lanchester Valley Railway Path
  27. Low Newton Junction Local Nature Reserve
  28. Malton Nature Reserve
  29. Pea Wood
  30. Pity Me Carrs
  31. Pontburn Woods
  32. Pontop Fell
  33. Rabbit Bank Wood
  34. Ragpath Wood
  35. Rainton Park Wood
  36. Raisby Way and Trimdon Grange Quarry Local Nature Reserve
  37. River Wear at Riverside Park
  38. Sacriston Wood
  39. School Aycliffe Wetland
  40. Selset Reservoir
  41. South Stanley Wood
  42. Tanfield Lea Marsh Local Nature Reserve
  43. Tees Valley Railway Path
  44. Tunstall Reservoir
  45. Tuthill Pond
  46. Waskerley Reservoir
  47. Waskerley Way
  48. Westlaw Wood
  49. Willington North Dene
  50. Woodham Burn