Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes explained

Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
Aos:Kent
Interest:Biological
Geological
Area:1790.1ha
Notifydate:1993
Map: Magic Map

Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes is a 1790.1abbr=offNaNabbr=off biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches between Deal and Sandwich in Kent.[1] [2] It includes two Geological Conservation Review sites,[3] [4] and most of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.[5] Part of it is a Ramsar site,[6] a Special Area of Conservation,[7] [8] a Special Protection Area[9] and a National Nature Reserve,[10] [11] It also includes a Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserve[12] and a Local Nature Reserve,[13]

This site has over 30 plant species and 168 invertebrates which are nationally rare and nationally scarce, and several wintering birds are present in nationally important numbers. It is also a geologically important site, with diverse fish fossils dating to the Thanetian around 57 million years ago.[14]

External links

51.283°N 1.371°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Designated Sites View: Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 26 February 2018.
  2. Web site: Map of Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 26 February 2018.
  3. Web site: Pegwell Bay (Quaternary of South-East England) . Geological Conservation Review . Joint Nature Conservation Committee . 11 January 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180112160215/http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=783 . 2018-01-12 .
  4. Web site: Pegwell Bay (Mesozoic - Tertiary Fish/Amphibia). Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 11 January 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180112160135/http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=3008. 12 January 2018.
  5. Book: Derek Ratcliffe

    . Derek . Ratcliffe . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 2–4 . Derek Ratcliffe . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .

  6. Web site: Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay . Ramsar Site. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  7. Web site: Designated Sites View: Sandwich Bay . Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  8. Web site: Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast . Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  9. Web site: Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay. Special Protection Area. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  10. Web site: Kent's National Nature Reserves. Natural England. 2 August 2014. 23 January 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180124072455/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/kents-national-nature-reserves/kents-national-nature-reserves. 24 January 2018.
  11. Web site: Designated Sites View: Sandwich and Pegwell Bay . National Nature Reserves. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  12. Web site: Sandwich and Pegwell Bay. Kent Wildlife Trust. 25 January 2018. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170921105752/http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/sandwich-and-pegwell-bay. 2017-09-21.
  13. Web site: Designated Sites View: Prince's Beachlands . Local Nature Reserves. Natural England . 18 January 2018.
  14. Web site: Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 26 February 2018.

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