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Ballynahone Bog
Ballynahone Bog is a lowland raised bog near Maghera in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, protected as a Special Area of Conservation, Ramsar site, and National Nature Reserve.
Blakeney Point
Blakeney Point is a shingle spit on the North Norfolk coast of England, owned by the National Trust since 1912 and home to England's largest gray seal colony.
Clara Bog
Clara Bog is a raised bog about 2 km south of Clara, County Offaly, Ireland, regarded as the best remaining example of active midland raised bog in Western Europe.
Cley Marshes
Cley Marshes is a coastal wetland nature reserve at Cley next the Sea on the north Norfolk coast, bought in 1926 as the first county Wildlife Trust reserve.
Pollardstown Fen
Pollardstown Fen is a spring-fed calcareous fen near Newbridge in County Kildare, Ireland, the largest in the country and a National Nature Reserve, Ramsar site, and Special Area of Conservation.
RSPB wetland reserves
RSPB wetland reserves are nature reserves of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds whose principal habitats are wetland, including Minsmere and Lakenheath Fen.
Somerset Levels
The Somerset Levels are a low-lying, drained wetland plain of about 650 km2 in southwest England, home of the Neolithic Sweet Track, rich wetland wildlife, and extensive flood management infrastructure.
The Broads
The Broads (Norfolk and Suffolk Broads): Britain's largest protected wetland, a network of flooded medieval peat diggings in Norfolk and Suffolk with national-park-equivalent status, 125 miles of lock-free waterways, and the Broads Authority as its managing body.
The Fens
The Fens: drained wetlands of eastern England around The Wash, reclaimed from the 17th century by Vermuyden's Bedford Level works into prime arable land, now facing peat subsidence, pumped drainage, and the Fens 2100+ climate program.
WWT wetland centres and reserves
The WWT wetland centers are ten visitor reserves in the UK run by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, begun by Peter Scott at Slimbridge in 1946.