Thanet Coast Explained

Thanet Coast
Aos:Kent
Interest:Biological
Geological
Area:816.9ha
Notifydate:1990
Map: Magic Map

Thanet Coast is an 816.9abbr=offNaNabbr=off biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Whitstable and Ramsgate in Kent.[1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site,[3] and overlaps two Special Area of Conservations.[4] [5] It is also part of a Ramsar Site[6] and a Special Protection Area.[7] Part of it is a Local Nature Reserve,[8]

This site has unstable cliffs and foreshore, saltmarsh, lagoons, woodland and grassland. It has internationally important numbers of wintering birds and three nationally rare invertebrates. It is also an important Palaeocene site and paleobotanical locality.[9]

Natural England divides the Site of Special Scientific Interest into units. The Church Commissioners own some of the land on which unit 10, unit 11 and unit 12 are situated[10]

References

51.38°N 1.279°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 1 March 2018.
  2. Web site: Map of Thanet Coast. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 1 March 2018.
  3. Web site: Thanet Coast (Cenomanian, Turonian, Senonian, Maastrichtian). Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 12 January 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180112160643/http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=214. 12 January 2018.
  4. Web site: Designated Sites View: Tankerton Slopes and Swalecliffe . Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. 22 January 2018.
  5. Web site: Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast . Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  6. Web site: Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay . Ramsar Site. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  7. Web site: Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay. Special Protection Area. Natural England. 18 January 2018.
  8. Web site: Designated Sites View: Bishopstone Cliffs . Local Nature Reserves. Natural England . 25 January 2018.
  9. Web site: Thanet Coast citation. Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 1 March 2018.
  10. Web site: 'God's acres': the land owned by the Church Commissioners. 2019-11-04. Who Owns England?. en-GB. 2019-11-05.

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