Prestwick Carr

Coordinates: 55°03′22″N 1°41′46″W / 55.056°N 1.696°W / 55.056; -1.696

Prestwick Carr

Prestwick Carr Prestwick Carr shown within Tyne and Wear
OS grid reference	NZ195735
List of places UK England Tyne and Wear

Prestwick Carr is an area of meadow and farmland including a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) known for its bird of prey population. It is situated east of Ponteland, mainly in Tyne and Wear but on the boundary with Northumberland, North East England.

Prestwick Carr SSSI plantation (afar)

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Natural England SSSI information for Prestwick Carr

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Tyne and Wear

City of Sunderland	Claxheugh Rock and Ford Limestone Quarry Dawson's Plantation Quarry Durham Coast Fulwell and Carley Hill Quarries Gilley Law Quarry Hastings Hill Herrington Hill Hetton Bogs High Haining Hill High Moorsley Humbledon Hill Quarry Hylton Castle Cutting Joe's Pond Moorsley Banks South Hylton Pasture Tunstall Hills and Ryhope Cutting Wear River Bank

Gateshead	Gibside Lower Derwent Meadows Pockerley Farm Pond Ridley Gill Ryton Willows Shibdon Pond Strother Hills Thornley Wood

Newcastle upon Tyne	Big Waters Brenkley Meadows Gosforth Park Hallow Hill Prestwick Carr

North Tyneside	Northumberland Shore Tynemouth to Seaton Sluice

South Tyneside	Boldon Pastures Cleadon Hill Harton Down Hill West Farm Meadow, Boldon

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