Dengie nature reserve

Last updated

Dengie
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Tillingham Marshes - far eastern edge. - geograph.org.uk - 1311468.jpg
Tillingham Marshes
Location Essex
Grid reference TM045030
InterestBiological
Geological
Area12 sq. mi. (3105.0 hectares)
Notification 1986
Location map Magic Map
Designations
Official nameDengie
Designated24 March 1994
Reference no.651 [1]

Dengie nature reserve is a 12 sq. mi. (3,105 hectare) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest between the estuaries of the Blackwater and Crouch near Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex. [2] [3] It is also a National Nature Reserve, [4] a Special Protection Area, [5] a Nature Conservation Review site, [2] a Geological Conservation Review site [6] and a Ramsar site. [7] It is part of the Essex estuaries Special Area of Conservation. [8] An area of 30 acres (12 hectares) is the Bradwell Shell Bank nature reserve, which is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. [9]

It consists of large, remote area of tidal mud-flats and salt marshes at the eastern end of the Dengie peninsula . The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall overlooks some of the site.

It is a wetland of international importance and provides habitats for:

Breakwater barges, Sales Point, Bradwell-on-Sea.jpg
Sunken barges used as a breakwater, in the northern part of the SPA
Dengie SPA, panorama to south near St Peter chapel.jpg
View southward near the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall

References

  1. ↑ "Dengie". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Dengie citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Map of Dengie". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Essex's National Nature Reserves". Natural England. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Dengie (Coastal Geomorphology of England)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in the UK and Overseas Territories & Crown Dependencies". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "Essex Estuaries". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Bradwell Shell Bank Nature Reserve". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 26 February 2016.

51°40′59″N0°56′53″E / 51.683°N 0.948°E / 51.683; 0.948

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.