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Eaton, M A; A F Brown; D G Noble; A J Musgrove; R Hearn; N J Aebischer; D W Gibbons; A Evans; R D Gregory (2009). "Birds of
Conservation Concern 3: the population status of birds in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man".
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Although the area has a variety of habitats, it is the montane vegetation that is particularly notable. The summit of Cross Fell is dominated by a heath in which the moss
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Downie, I S; J C Coulson; L J Bauer; J E L Butterfield; L Davies; S A Goodyear (1994). "The invertebrate fauna of Cross Fell and Dun Fell summits".
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Moorhouse and Cross Fell SSSI was created in 1990 as part of a substantial revision of existing SSSIs that had originally been notified under the
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fauna is best known from studies conducted over many years at the Moor House NNR. The area shares many characteristics with the
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Cross Fell — together with the Dun Fells and Knock Fell, this area is important both for its examples of
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Within the site are five localities of geological interest, of which the following are particularly notable:
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The area is important for its wide variety of upland habitats, especially
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In 1975, Moor House NNR was the first site in
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More than forty species of birds breed in the area, including several
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landforms and because some periglacial processes are still active.
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Muggleswick, Stanhope and
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232:in the east. It includes the whole of
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760:Crime Rigg and Sherburn Hill Quarries
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178:Site of Special Scientific Interest
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665:Backstone Bank and Baal Hill Woods
510:Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
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900:Middle Side and Stonygill Meadows
990:Rigg Farm and Stake Hill Meadows
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695:Bowlees and Friar House Meadows
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815:Green Croft and Langley Moor
442:, and alpine forget-me-not,
965:Quarrington Hill Grasslands
240:and in England outside the
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810:Grains o' th' Beck Meadows
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1050:Trimdon Limestone Quarry
1020:Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon
915:Moorhouse and Cross Fell
436:, mountain everlasting,
204:. It is contiguous with
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21:Moorhouse and Cross Fell
1040:Thrislington Plantation
1005:Shipley and Great Woods
675:Bishop Middleham Quarry
514:Special Protection Area
505:The site is within the
417:Racromitium lanuginosum
1080:West Rigg Open Cutting
785:Far High House Meadows
308:Eurasian golden plover
1085:Westernhope Burn Wood
975:Raisby Hill Grassland
670:Baldersdale Woodlands
430:, northern bedstraw,
397:, the Cairngorms and
344:Red Data Book (Birds)
208:SSSI to the east and
1100:Yoden Village Quarry
930:Newton Ketton Meadow
860:Hisehope Burn Valley
224:southward as far as
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895:Middle Crossthwaite
880:Low Redford Meadows
870:Hunder Beck Juniper
230:Cow Green Reservoir
152:Governing body
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980:Raisby Hill Quarry
970:Railway Stell West
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850:Hesledon Moor West
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613:"Designated sites"
445:Myosotis alpestris
408:Hydnobius spinipes
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615:. English Nature.
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485:Biosphere Reserve
439:Antennaria dioica
373:Olophrum assimile
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925:Neasham Fen
885:Lune Forest
765:Dabble Bank
720:Cassop Vale
685:Botany Hill
472:periglacial
467:in Britain.
465:cave system
395:North Wales
368:rove beetle
302:—and
274:Ornithology
249:blanket bog
186:Wear Valley
147:1951 / 1963
144:Established
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99:Coordinates
1141:Categories
1015:Slit Woods
690:Bowes Moor
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524:References
422:such heath
362:region of
360:Cairngorms
234:Cross Fell
34:Cross Fell
32:Summit of
1116:Cleveland
1035:The Carrs
865:Hulam Fen
755:Crag Gill
288:peregrine
264:grassland
261:limestone
257:bryophyte
222:Garrigill
214:Gamblesby
79:MAGiC MaP
945:Pig Hill
601:: 48–62.
595:Vasculum
405:beetle,
401:, and a
364:Scotland
238:Pennines
218:Leadgate
192:and the
182:moorland
75:Location
556:1 April
452:Geology
403:leiodid
378:carabid
306:—
282:—
280:raptors
268:flushes
259:heath,
253:montane
226:Milburn
202:England
198:Cumbria
184:in the
162:Website
108:54°43′N
93:Cumbria
36:, with
489:UNESCO
381:beetle
330:, and
312:dunlin
304:waders
284:merlin
111:2°23′W
89:Alston
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558:2022
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