Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Cliffs at Yeol Mouth, to the north of the site
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 Location within Cornwall
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| Area of Search | Cornwall |
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| Grid reference | SS212174 |
| Coordinates | 50°54′54″N 4°33′36″W / 50.9149°N 4.5599°WCoordinates: 50°54′54″N 4°33′36″W / 50.9149°N 4.5599°W |
| Interest | Biological |
| Area | 342.8 hectares (3.43 km2; 1.32 sq mi) |
| Notification | 1973 |
| Natural England website | |
Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Cornwall, England, UK, noted for its biological characteristics.
The 343-hectare (850-acre) site, notified in 1973, is situated on the north Cornish coast, within Morwenstow civil parish, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the town of Bude. It starts at Steeple Point in the south, following the shores of the Celtic Sea in the Atlantic Ocean to Marsland Mouth in the north, which is on the Cornwall-Devon border. This site is contiguous with the Bude Coast, Duckpool to Furzey Cove and Marsland to Clovelly Coast (in Devon) chain of SSSIs on this section of coastline.
The South West Coast Path runs through the SSSI and parts of the coastline are owned by the National Trust. The SSSI also covers the Cornish side of Marsland Valley nature reserve, jointly owned by the Devon and Cornwall Wildlife Trusts.
The SSSI is sited on a geological formation of Upper Carboniferous Culm Measures, which support a variety of habitats including maritime grassland, woodland, maritime heath, scrub, bodies of water as well as rocky foreshore and cliffs.
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