Public notice: Mendip NNR
Published 19 October 2023
Applies to England
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National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Declaration of National Nature Reserve
Unitary Authority of North Somerset
County of Somerset
Notice is hereby given that:
In accordance with section 19(3) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (as amended), and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, Natural England has, by the Mendip National Nature Reserve No.01 Declaration made on the 26th day of September 2023, declared that the land having a total area of 0.08 hectares or thereabouts, situated in the Parish of St. Cuthbert Out in the County of Somerset and shown cross hatched and unshaded on the attached map number 10 (which land was included in the Ebbor Gorge Number 02 Declaration made by English Nature on the 14th day of September 2006) has ceased to be managed as a nature reserve.
And in pursuance of section 19(1) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and section 35(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf Natural England has declared that the Ebbor Gorge and Rodney Stoke National Nature Reserves are extended and are to be known henceforth as Mendip National Nature Reserve.
The extension land having a total area of 1312.78 hectares or thereabouts shown single hatched and shaded yellow on the maps attached to the said Declaration, situated in the Parishes of Weston-Super-Mare, Hutton, Bleadon, Winscombe and Sandford, and Churchill in the Unitary Authority of North Somerset, and the Parishes of Brean, Compton Bishop, Axbridge, Cheddar, Priddy, Rodney Stoke, Westbury, St. Cuthbert Out, Wells and Chewton Mendip in the County of Somerset is held by Natural England or is held by Avon Wildlife Trust, Butterfly Conservation, Longleat Enterprises Limited, National Trust, Somerset Wildlife Trust, The South West Heritage Trust and The Woodland Trust, bodies approved by Natural England to hold and manage National Nature Reserves.
The said land now having a total area of 1410.60 hectares or thereabouts is being managed as a nature reserve, and Natural England is satisfied that the 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
Rachel Williams, Area Manager for Wessex
on behalf of Natural England.