Dengie nature reserve

Dengie

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Tillingham Marshes
Location	Essex
Grid reference	TM045030
Interest	Biological Geological
Area	12 sq. mi. (3105.0 hectares)
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Designations
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Dengie
Designated	24 March 1994
Reference no.	651[1]

Dengie nature reserve is a 12 sq. mi. (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.[2][3] It is also a National Nature Reserve,[4] a Special Protection Area,[5] a Nature Conservation Review site,[2] a Geological Conservation Review site[6] and a Ramsar site.[7] It is part of the Essex estuaries Special Area of Conservation.[8] An area of 30 acres (12 hectares) is the Bradwell Shell Bank nature reserve, which is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.[9]

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)
• Red knot (Calidris canutus)
• Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa islandica)
• Dunlin (Calidris alpina alpina)
• Northern 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. "Dengie". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
2. "Dengie citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
3. "Map of Dengie". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
4. "Essex's National Nature Reserves". Natural England. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
5. "Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
6. "Dengie (Coastal Geomorphology of England)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
7. "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in the UK and Overseas Territories & Crown Dependencies". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
8. "Essex Estuaries". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
9. "Bradwell Shell Bank Nature Reserve". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 26 February 2016.

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