Bryher is part of which island group?
Bryher Bryher Bryher (, "place of hills") is one of the smaller of the inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly. The island has a length of , a maximum width of and an area of , including Shipman Head, which rises to at the northern end of the island. Bryher lies to the west of Tresco, and is separated from that island by the Tresco Channel, once the main anchorage for the islands and now an area where sandflats are exposed at low tide. Off the southern end of Bryher is the uninhabited island of Samson. It is possible to
Bryher Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on Bryher. The Shipman Head and Shipman Down SSSI was first designated in 1971 and covers over 40 ha of the northern part of the island. Waved maritime heath grows over shallow podzolic soils which are underlain by Hercynian granite. Rare plants include the Red Data Book (RDB) Orange Bird's-foot ("Ornithopus pinnatus") and the nationally scarce Hairy Bird's-foot trefoil ("Lotus subbiflorus"). Lichens include ("Lobaria pulmonaria") and ("Teleoschistes flavicans"). On the west side of the island is Great Pool which is part of the Pool of Bryher and Popplestone Bank SSSI. It is separated from the sea