Canvey Wick

Canvey Wick
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Essex
Grid reference	TQ 761834
Interest	Biological
Area	93.2 hectares
Notification	2005
Location map	Magic Map

Canvey Wick is a 93.2 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest at the south-west corner of Canvey Island in Essex.^[1]^[2] It is owned by the Land Trust and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Buglife.^[3]^[4]

The site was formerly an oil refinery, and has been transformed into an area of grazing marsh. It has a nationally important population of invertebrates, including 22 which are endangered Red Book species, and three which had been recorded as extinct in Britain. It also has a nationally important population of shrill carder bees. Scrub edges provide additional habitats.^[1] The site has been described as "a brownfield rainforest" by Natural England officer Chris Gibson.^[4]

The entrance to the reserve is on Northwick Road.^[5]

References

1 2 "Canvey Wick citation". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
↑ "Map of Canvey Wick" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
↑ "About Canvey Wick". Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
1 2 "Canvey Wick - Britain's Rainforest...and Buglife's First Nature Reserve". Buglife. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
↑ "How to get there". Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex

Biological	Abberton Reservoir Ashdon Meadows Basildon Meadows Belcher's and Broadfield Woods Benfleet and Southend Marshes Blackwater Estuary Blake's Wood & Lingwood Common Bovingdon Hall Woods Bullock Wood Canvey Wick Cattawade Marshes Chalkney Wood Colne Estuary Cornmill Stream and Old River Lea Crouch and Roach estuaries Curtismill Green Danbury Common Debden Water Dengie Elsenham Woods Epping Forest Foulness Garnetts Wood and Barnston Lays Garrold's Meadow Glemsford Pits Grays Thurrock Chalk Pit Great Wood and Dodd's Grove Hainault Forest Hales and Shadwell Woods Hamford Water Hangman's Wood and Deneholes Hanningfield Reservoir Harlow Woods Hatfield Forest High Wood, Dunmow Hockley Woods Holehaven Creek Holland Haven Marshes Hunsdon Mead Inner Thames Marshes Little Hallingbury Marsh Mill Meadows Mucking Flats and Marshes Norsey Wood Nunn Wood Pitsea Marsh Purfleet Road, Aveley Quendon Wood Riddles Wood Roding Valley Meadows Roman River Sandbeach Meadows Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey Stour Estuary The Coppice, Kelvedon Hatch Thorndon Park Thrift Wood, Woodham Ferrers Thundersley Great Common Tiptree Heath Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Upper Colne Marshes Vange and Fobbing Marshes Waltham Abbey Weeleyhall Wood West Thurrock Lagoon and Marshes West Wood, Little Sampford Woodham Walter Common

Geological	Ardleigh Gravel Pit Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore Colne Estuary Dengie Globe Pit Goldsands Road Pit Hall's Quarry Harwich Foreshore Holland-on-Sea Cliff Lion Pit Little Oakley Channel Deposit Lofts Farm Pit Maldon Cutting Marks Tey Brickpit Newney Green Pit Purfleet Chalk Pits River Ter St Osyth Pit Stour Estuary The Cliff, Burnham-on-Crouch The Naze Wivenhoe Gravel Pit

Coordinates: 51°31′21″N 0°32′10″E / 51.5225°N 0.5362°E / 51.5225; 0.5362

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