Warton Crag S.S.S.I

Warton Crag S.S.S.I has woodland and very small amounts of calcareous grassland and semi-open pavement. Non designated parts are the bracken/neutral grassland and wooded pavement.

The small calcareous grassland patches are rank and with low herb cover apart from small area around the Brothers stones. Grassland along the rides is mostly semi improved and not calcareous and is bracken dominated in many places despite some past treatment.

Most of the pavement is wooded but small areas in the west are semi-open but the best area in the NW where it is fenced has over 30% scrub cover and fails on this. A good patch of lily of valley occurs next to pavement.