Dengie nature reserve

Dengie
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Tillingham Marshes
Area of Search	Essex
Grid reference	TM045030
Interest	Biological
Area	3105.0 hectares
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Dengie nature reserve is a 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..^[1]^[2] It is also a National Nature Reserve,^[3] a Special Protection Area,^[4] a Nature Conservation Review site,^[1] a Geological Conservation Review site^[5] and a Ramsar site.^[6] It is part of the Essex estuaries Special Area of Conservation.^[7] An area of 12 hectares is the Bradwell Shell Bank Nature Reserve, which is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.^[8]

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:

Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus)
Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
knot (Calidris canutus)
Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa islandica)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina alpina)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Dark-bellied brent goose (Branta bernicla bernicla)
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus)

Sunken barges used as a breakwater, in the northern part of the SPA

View southward near the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall

References

1 2 "Dengie citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
↑ "Map of Dengie". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
↑ "Essex's National Nature Reserves". Natural England. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
↑ "Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
↑ "Dengie (Coastal Geomorphology of England)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
↑ "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in the UK and Overseas Territories & Crown Dependencies". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
↑ "Essex Estuaries". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
↑ "Bradwell Shell Bank Nature Reserve". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 26 February 2016.

Coordinates: 51°40′59″N 0°56′53″E / 51.683°N 0.948°E / 51.683; 0.948

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

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