AONB status is not the only designation that offers Gower protection there are a number of local, national and international sites which have a rich and important diversity that must be protected. Further information on protected landscapes can be found by using the CCW link in the right hand column.
Gower AONB
STATUTORY DESIGNATIONS
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Candidate Special Areas of Conservation (cSAC), Marine Candidate Special Areas of Conservation, National Nature Reserves (NNR), Special Protection Areas (SPA), Ramsar Sites.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
(Numbers 5 and 22 are very close to Middle Cottage/Llanmadoc)
1. - Barland Common Stream Section
2. - Berry Wood
3. - Blackpill
4. - Bracelet Bay
5. - Burry Inlet and Loughor Estuary (part of Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries SAC, Burry Inlet SPA, Burry Inlet RAMSAR)
6. - Caswell Bay
7. - Cefn Bryn Common (part of Gower Commons SAC)
8. - Fairwood, Pengwern and Welshmoor Commons (part of Gower Commons SAC)
9. - Gower Coast: Rhossili to Port Eynon (part of Gower Coast NNR and Limestone Coast of South West Wales SAC)
10. - Horton, Eastern and Western Slade
11. - Ilston Quarry
12. - Langland Bay (Rotherslade)
13. - Mitchin Hole
14. - Nicholaston Woods (part of Gower Ash Woods SAC and Oxwich NNR)
15. - Oxwich Bay (part of Oxwich NNR, part in Gower Ash Woods SAC and part in Limestone Coast of South West Wales SAC)
16. - Parkmill Woodlands and Llethrid Valley (part of Gower Ash Woods SAC)
17. - Penard Valley (part in Gower Ash Woods SAC)
18. - Penrice Stables and Underhill Cottage
19. - Pwll Du Head and Bishopston Valley (part in Limestone Coast of South West Wales and part in Gower Ash Woods SAC)
20. - Rhossili Down (part of Gower Commons SAC)
21. - Sluxton Marsh and Whitemoor (part of Gower Commons SAC)
22. - Whiteford Burrows, Landimore Marsh and Broughton Bay (part of Whiteford NNR, Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries cSAC and Carmarthen Bay Dunes SAC, Burry Inlet SPA, Burry Inlet RAMSAR site)
23. - Rose Cottage
24. - Courthouse Grasslands (part of Gower Commons SAC)
Special Areas of Conservation (SAC)
(Numbers 1 and 4 are very close to Middle Cottage/Llanmadoc)
1. - Gower Commons
2. - Gower Ash Woods
3. - Limestone Coast of South West Wales
4. - Carmarthen Bay Dunes
Marine Special Areas of Conservation
(Number 1 very close to Middle Cottage/Llanmadoc)
1. - Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries
National Nature Reserves (NNR)
(Number 1 ans 2 is very close to Middle Cottage/Llanmadoc)
1. - Whiteford
2. - Oxwich
3. - Gower Coast
Special Protection Areas (SPA)
(Number 1 is very close to Middle Cottage/Llanmadoc)
Ramsar Sites
(Number 1 is very close to Middle Cottage/Llanmadoc)
Local Nature Reserves (NNR)
1. - Pwll Du Cliffs
2. - Bishops Wood
3. - Mumbles Hill
