One of a suite of calaminarian grasslands along the Tyne, South Tyne and Allen, this site is an excellent place to see alpine penny-cress and other plants influenced by heavy metal contamination…

Cresswell Foreshore is a large wave-cut platform with many shallow rockpools, attracting varied marine wildlife and wading birds.

Cresswell Pond, just off the beautiful Druridge Bay coastline, is a shallow brackish lagoon, providing a year-round haven for wading birds.

Druridge Pools is a wetland haven, rich in bird life, especially waders and wintering wildfowl.

Earsdon West Forest is our first BNG habitat bank, delivering massive biodiversity improvements within our Wilder Druridge landscape.

A large reserve comprising two large lakes with fringing reedbeds, grassland and woodland.

A small, tranquil reserve featuring a pond and grassland harbouring typical species to this habitat with much aquatic flora and fauna including beautiful dragonflies and damselflies.

A disused limestone quarry which has developed a rich limestone flora as well as having interesting geological exposures.

A disused limestone quarry site, with probably the best exposure of Acre limestone in the county, with diverse habitats favoured by birds, amphibians and invertebrates.

One of the most accessible Border Mires sites, an area of heather moorland and blanket bog which comes alive in summer time with impressive insect life.