Abstract
Readers will be aware that the main purpose of the Geological Conservation Review is to re-assess the relative significance of Britain's geological and geomorphological sites and to ensure that the coverage of SSSIs adequately represents the most important localities in these subject areas. The most well-known result is that a substantial number of new localities worthy of SSSI status has been identified, and that these are in the process of being notified as SSSIs to ensure their future protection. Perhaps less well-known is the fact that a number of localities, which were notified as SSSIs before the OCR started work in 1977, have been re-assessed as part of the OCR exercise and found not to measure up to the more rigorous selection criteria now being used, and are now being removed from the list of notified SSSIs.
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