WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981

DECLARATION OF NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE

PARISHES OF WITHERSLACK AND CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH, COUNTY OF CUMBRIA

Notice is hereby given, in pursuance of section 35 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, that by the Whitbarrow National Nature Reserve No 3 Declaration 2004 made on 12 July 2004, English Nature declared that the land containing 138.44 hectares or thereabouts situated in the parishes of Witherslack and Crosthwaite and Lyth in the county of Cumbria and shown yellow on the plan attached to the said Declaration, is being held partly by Cumbria Wildlife Trust, partly by Forestry Commission and partly by Lake District National Park Authority, bodies approved by English Nature, and managed as a nature reserve.
This declaration is additional to the land previously declared, which is shown single hatched and shaded yellow on the attached maps.
Notice is hereby given, in pursuance of section 19 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and section 35 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, that by the Whitbarrow National Nature Reserve No 3 Declaration 2004, made on 12 July 2004, English Nature declared that the land containing 0.57 hectares or thereabouts situated in the parish of Crosthwaite and Lyth in the county of Cumbria and shown single hatched and unshaded on the plan attached to the said Declaration (which land was included in the Whitbarrow Nature Reserve No 2 Declaration 1998 made by the Nature Conservancy Council for England on 11 September 1998), is not held by Forestry Commission and managed as a nature reserve.
Certified copies of the Whitbarrow National Nature Reserve No 2 Declaration 2004 have been deposited for public inspection, free of charge, during normal office hours at the offices of Cumbria County Council, Lake District National Park Authority, at Kendal and Grange-over-Sands libraries and at the offices of English Nature at Murley Moss, Kendal and Northminster House, Peterborough.
On behalf of English Nature
12 July 2004.