Foulness SSSI

Foulness
Site of Special Scientific Interest
View across the River Roach
Area of Search	Essex
Grid reference	TR030905
Interest	Biological
Area	10,702 hectares
Notification	1993
Location map	Magic Map

Foulness SSSI is a 10,702 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest covering the shoreline between Southend-on-Sea and the Crouch estuary in Essex. It is a key site in A Nature Conservation Review,^[1]^[2] and is part of the Essex Estuaries Special Area of Conservation.^[3] It covers two Ramsar wetland sites of international importance, 'Crouch and Roach Estuaries' and 'Foulness'.^[4] An area of 6.4 hectares is Shoeburyness Old Ranges, a Local Nature Reserve^[5]^[6] managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.^[7]

Most of the site is owned and managed by the Ministry of Defence. Natural England describes it as "extensive intertidal sand-silt flats, saltmarsh, beaches, grazing marshes, rough grass and scrubland". The flats are of international importance for nine species of wildfowl and waders, such as dark-bellied brent geese. Rare plants include soft hornwort and spiral tasselwood, and the site is also important for invertebrates, with 71 nationally rare species.^[1]

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References

1 2 "Foulness citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
↑ "Map of Foulness". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
↑ "Essex Estuaries". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
↑ "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in the UK and Overseas Territories & Crown Dependencies". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
↑ "Shoeburyness Old Ranges". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
↑ "Map of Shoeburyness Old Ranges". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
↑ "Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges Nature Reserve". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 24 February 2016.

Coordinates: 51°34′52″N 0°56′13″E / 51.581°N 0.937°E / 51.581; 0.937

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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