Special Features of the Northumberland Coast

Natural

BioDiversity

• Dune and whin grassland
• Arable farmland and field margins
• Rivers and streams
• Wooded habitats (scrub, hedgerows, hedgerow trees, native woodland)
• Shoreline habitats of mudflat, sandflat, saltmarsh, rocky shore and shingle
• Cliff habitats
• Birds (seabirds, waders, wildfowl and lowland farmland birds)
• Grey and common seals

Geodiversity

• Whin Sill
• Carboniferous sequences of limestone, sandstone shale and coal measures
• Coastal, estuarine and riverine geomorphology

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