Bradwell Shell Bank Explained

Bradwell Shell Bank
Type:	Nature reserve
Grid Ref Uk:	TM 035 081
Location:	Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex
Area:	N/Av
Manager:	Essex Wildlife Trust

Bradwell Shell Bank is a nature reserve on the coast of the Dengie Peninsula near Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.^[1] It is part of the Dengie Site of Special Scientific Interest,^{[2] [3]} Special Protection Area^[4] and Ramsar site,^[5] and the Essex Estuaries Special Area of Conservation.^[6] It is also part of the Blackwater Flats and Marshes, a Grade I site in the Nature Conservation Review.^{[2] [7]}

The site is a large area of saltmarsh together with some 12ha of shell bank. Birds which breed on the shell bank include little terns and ringed plovers, and there many species on the saltmarsh. There are flora such as yellow-horned poppies, grass-leaved oraches and rock samphires.^[1]

Part of the reserve is accessible at low tide by a footpath from the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall.^[1]

References

51.735°N 0.946°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bradwell Shell Bank . Essex Wildlife Trust . 2 October 2016.
2. Web site: Dengie citation . Sites of Special Scientific Interest . Natural England . 2 November 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042635/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1000735.pdf . 4 March 2016 .
3. Web site: Map of Dengie. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 2 November 2016.
4. Web site: Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1) . Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 2 November 2016.
5. Web site: Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands (RIS): Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1). DEFRA. 2 November 2016.
6. Web site: Essex Estuaries . Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 2 November 2016.
7. Book: Ratcliffe, Derek . Derek Ratcliffe

   . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 7–8 . Derek Ratcliffe . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .