East of Start Point MCZ is an offshore site which covers an area of 116 km2. It is located in the Eastern Channel region, approximately 20 km off Torquay and 12 miles south of Lyme Bay.
The seabed within East of Start Point MCZ is predominantly composed of subtidal sand. Most animals that live in this type of habitat are found on the surface of the sand or buried within it, such as worms, bivalve molluscs (such as razor clams and mussels) and flat fish. The site is a spawning and nursery ground for a number of fish species such as lemon sole, sand eels, mackerel, thornback ray and spotted ray.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-conservation-zones-east-of-start-point
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The Torbay Limestones are a group of headlands made up of limestone laid down around 400 million years ago - in a period appropriately called the Devonian.
The flat topped headlands support a mosaic of grassland, limestone heath, rock, cliff and scrub communities, noted for their exceptional floristic richness.
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Our Geopark, covering the entire area of Torbay, is Naturally Inspiring. It shares stories of a landscape untouched by glaciation unseen elsewhere in the world. Stories of tropical seas and scorching deserts, raised beaches and drowned forests, hippopotami and mammoth, straight-tusked elephant and sabre-toothed tiger, cave bear and earliest man...
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