Marine Protected Areas

This map shows marine protected area designations and proposed designations under European and domestic law in UK territorial waters. Click on an area to find out more.

Alde Ore Estuary
Alde-Ore Estuary
Alde, Ore and Butley Estuaries
Allonby Bay
Aln Estuary
Axe Estuary
Bassurelle Sandbank
Beachy Head East (Royal Sovereign Shoals)
Beachy Head West
Bembridge
Benfleet and Southend Marshes
Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast
Bideford to Foreland Point
Blackwater Estuary (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 4)
Blackwater, Crouch, Roach and Colne Estuaries
Breydon Water
Bristol Channel Approaches / Dynesfeydd Môr Hafren
Broad Bench to Kimmeridge Bay
Camel Estuary
Cape Bank
Castle Ground
Celtic Deep
Chesil and the Fleet
Chesil Beach and Stennis Ledges
Chesil Beach and The Fleet
Chichester and Langstone Harbours
Colne Estuary (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 2)
Compass Rose
Coquet Island
Coquet to St Mary's
Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds
Crouch and Roach Estuaries (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 3)
Cumbria Coast
Dart Estuary
Deben Estuary
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1)
Devon Avon Estuary
Dogger Bank
Dover to Deal
Dover to Folkestone
Drigg Coast
Duddon Estuary
Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
East Meridian
East Meridian (Eastern section)
East of Celtic Deep
East of Haig Fras
East of Jones Bank
Erme Estuary
Essex Estuaries
Exe Estuary
Fal and Helford
Fareham Creek
Farnes East
Flamborough Head
Folkestone Pomerania
Foulness (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 5)
Fulmar
Fylde
Gibraltar Point
Goodwin Sands
Greater Haig Fras
Haig Fras
Haisborough, Hammond and Winterton
Hamford Water
Hartland Point to Tintagel
Holderness Inshore
Holderness Offshore
Humber Estuary
Humber Estuary
Hythe Bay
Inner Bank
Inner Dowsing, Race Bank and North Ridge
Isles of Scilly Complex
Isles of Scilly Sites - Bishop to Crim
Isles of Scilly Sites - Bristows to the Stones
Isles of Scilly Sites - Gilstone to Gorregan
Isles of Scilly Sites - Hanjague to Deep Ledge
Isles of Scilly Sites - Higher Town
Isles of Scilly Sites - Lower Ridge to Innisvouls
Isles of Scilly Sites - Men a Vaur to White Island
Isles of Scilly Sites - Peninnis to Dry Ledge
Isles of Scilly Sites - Plympton to Spanish Ledge
Isles of Scilly Sites - Smith Sound Tide Swept Channel
Isles of Scilly Sites - Tean
Kentish Knock East
Kingmere
Lands End and Cape Bank
Lincs Belt
Lindisfarne
Liverpool Bay / Bae Lerpwl
Lizard Point
Lundy
Lundy
Lyme Bay and Torbay
Margate and Long Sands
Markham's Triangle
Medway Estuary
Medway Estuary and Marshes
Mersey Estuary
Mersey Narrows and North Wirral Foreshore
Mid St George's Channel
Minsmere-Walberswick
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay
Morte Platform
Mounts Bay
Mud Hole
Newquay and The Gannel
Norris to Ryde
North East of Farnes Deep
North Norfolk Coast
North Norfolk Coast
North Norfolk Sandbanks and Saturn Reef
North of Celtic Deep
North of Lundy
North St George's Channel
North St George's Channel Extension
North-East of Haig Fras
North-West of Jones Bank
Northumbria Coast
Offshore Brighton
Offshore Foreland
Offshore Overfalls
Orford Inshore
Orfordness - Shingle Street
Otter Estuary
Outer Thames Estuary
Padstow Bay and Surrounds
Pagham Harbour
Pagham Harbour
Plymouth Sound and Estuaries
Poole Harbour
Poole Rocks
Portsmouth Harbour
Ribble
Ribble and Alt Estuaries
Runnel Stone (Land's End)
Runswick Bay
Sefton Coast
Selsey Bill and the Hounds
Severn Estuary
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
Shell Flat and Lune Deep
Silver Pit
Skerries Bank and Surrounds
Slieve Na Griddle
Solent and Isle of Wight Lagoons
Solent and Southampton Water
Solent Maritime
Solway Firth
Solway Firth
South Dorset
South of Celtic Deep
South of Falmouth
South of Portland
South of the Isles of Scilly
South Rigg
South Wight Maritime
South-East of Falmouth
South-West Deeps (East)
South-West Deeps (West)
Southern North Sea
Start Point to Plymouth Sound & Eddystone
Stour and Orwell Estuaries
Studland Bay
Studland to Portland
Swallow Sand
Tamar Estuaries Complex
Tamar Estuary Sites
Taw Torridge Estuary
Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast
Thames Estuary
Thames Estuary and Marshes
Thanet Coast
Thanet Coast
Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay
The Canyons
The Dee Estuary
The Manacles
The Needles
The Swale
The Swale Estuary
The Wash
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast
Torbay
Tweed Estuary
Upper Fowey and Pont Pill
Upper Solway Flats and Marshes
Utopia
Wash Approach
West of Walney
Western Channel
Whitsand and Looe Bay
Wight-Barfleur Extension
Wight-Barfleur Reef
Wyre-Lune
Yarmouth to Cowes
Zone within Torbay
Ailsa Craig
Anton Dohrn Seamount
Ascrib, Isay and Dunvegan
Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast
Braemar Pockmarks
Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast
Calf of Eday
Canna and Sanday
Cape Wrath
Central Fladen
Clyde Sea Sill
Copinsay
Cromarty Firth
Darwin Mounds
Dornoch Firth and Loch Fleet
Dornoch Firth and Morrich More
East Caithness Cliffs
East Caithness Cliffs
East Mingulay
East of Gannet and Montrose Fields
East Rockall Bank
East Sanday Coast
Eileanan agus Sgeiran Lios mor
Fair Isle
Faray and Holm of Faray
Faroe-Shetland Sponge Belt
Fetlar
Fetlar to Haroldswick
Firth of Forth
Firth of Forth Banks Complex
Firth of Lorn
Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary
Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary
Flannan Isles
Forth Islands
Foula
Fowlsheugh
Geikie Slide and Hebridean Slope
Gruinart Flats, Islay
Handa
Hatton Bank
Hatton-Rockall Basin
Hermaness, Saxa Vord and Valla Field
Hoy
Inner Clyde Estuary
Inner Hebrides and the Minches
Inner Moray Firth
Isle of May
Loch Creran
Loch Creran
Loch Laxford
Loch Moidart and Loch Shiel Woods
Loch nam Madadh
Loch of Stenness
Loch Roag Lagoons
Loch Sunart
Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura
Loch Sween
Lochs Duich, Long and Alsh
Lochs Duich, Long and Alsh Reefs
Luce Bay and Sands
Marwick Head
Mingulay and Berneray
Moine Mhor
Monach Islands
Monach Isles
Montrose Basin
Moray and Nairn Coast
Moray Firth
Mousa
Mousa to Boddam
North Caithness Cliffs
North Colonsay and Western Cliffs
North Rona
North Rona and Sula Sgeir
North Uist Machair and Islands
North West Rockall Bank
North-east Faroe-Shetland Channel
North-east Lewis
North-west Orkney
Norwegian Boundary Sediment Plain
Noss
Noss Head
Obain Loch Euphoirt
Papa Stour
Papa Westray
Pobie Bank Reef
Rosemary Bank Seamount
Rousay
Rum
Sanday
Scanner Pockmark
Sea of the Hebrides
Shiant East Bank
Shiant Isles
Small Isles
Solan Bank Reef
Solway Firth
Sound of Arisaig (Loch Ailort to Loch Ceann Traigh)
Sound of Barra
South Arran
South Uist Machair
South Uist Machair and Lochs
South-East Islay Skerries
Southern Trench
St Abb's Head to Fast Castle
St Kilda
St Kilda
Stanton Banks
Sule Skerry and Sule Stack
Sullom Voe
Sumburgh Head
Sunart
The Barra Fan and Hebrides Terrace Seamount
The Vadills
Treshnish Isles
Troup, Pennan and Lion's Heads
Turbot Bank
Upper Loch Fyne and Loch Goil
Upper Solway Flats and Marshes
West Shetland Shelf
West Westray
Wester Ross
Wyre and Rousay Sounds
Wyville Thomson Ridge
Yell Sound Coast
Ythan Estuary, Sands of Forvie and Meikle Loch