Chartley Moss is a 105.80 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire, notified in 1987.

The area has been designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Ramsar Convention protected wetland site, and a national nature reserve.

There is no access without a permit.

[1] Chartley Moss was featured in a 1964 BBC programme which included a demonstration of the depth that a rod could be pushed into it, and how the surface of it, and trees growing in it, can move when it is walked on, as it is an example of a quaking bog or schwingmoor.

[2] In 1995 Chartley Moss was twinned with Tsukigaumi Mire, Hokkaido, in a gesture of goodwill between scientists from Hokkaido University and the University of Nottingham.