Notice

Public notice: Kinder Scout NNR

Published 1 September 2022

Applies to England

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Declaration of National Nature Reserve

Parishes of Edale, Hope Woodlands and Hayfield

County of Derbyshire

Notice is hereby given that: In pursuance of section 35(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, Natural England has, by the Kinder Scout National Nature Reserve No.02 Declaration 2022 made on the 21st day of June 2022, declared the land referred to therein a National Nature Reserve.

The land having a total area of 231.03 hectares or thereabouts, situated in the parishes of Edale, Hope Woodlands and Hayfield in the County of Derbyshire and shown single hatched and shaded yellow on the maps attached to the said Declaration, is held by the National Trust, a body approved by Natural England, and is being managed as a nature reserve.

Natural England is satisfied that the said land is of national importance.

The declaration and associated maps may be viewed on Natural England’s website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-nature-reserves-formal-notice-of-new-or-extended-sites

Christopher Evans, Area Senior Adviser, National Nature Reserves,
on behalf of Natural England.