Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Lake with islands in Rye Harbour Nature Reserve | |
Location | East Sussex Kent |
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Grid reference | TR 008 202[1] |
Interest | Biological Geological |
Area | 10,172.9 hectares (25,138 acres)[1] |
Notification | 2006[1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay is a 10,172.9-hectare (25,138-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches from New Romney in Kent to Winchelsea in East Sussex.[1][2] An area of 5,129.5 hectares (12,675 acres) is a Special Protection Area,[3] an area of 3,141.1 hectares (7,762 acres) is a Special Area of Conservation,[4] and an area of 6,377.6 hectares (15,759 acres) is a Ramsar Site, a wetland site designated of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.[5] Part of the site is in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,[6] parts are Geological Conservation Review sites,[7][8] part is a Local Nature Reserve,[9] and part is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve,[10] and part is a National Nature Reserve.[11][12]
Nationally important habitats in this site are saltmarsh, sand dunes, vegetated shingle, saline lagoons, standing waters, lowland ditch systems, and basin fens, and it has many rare and endangered species of fauna and flora. It is geologically important as its deposits display the chronology of coastal evolution.[13]
References
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Map of Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay". Special Protection Area. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Dungeness". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in the UK and Overseas Territories & Crown Dependencies". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Where is the High Weald?". High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "Dungeness (Coastal Geomorphology of England)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ "Iden (Wealden)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Romney Warren". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Dungeness". Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Dungeness". National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Kent's National Nature Reserves". Natural England. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
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- Alex Farm Pastures
- Alkham, Lydden and Swingfield Woods
- Bourne Alder Carr
- Brookland Wood
- Charing Beech Hangers
- Chattenden Woods and Lodge Hill
- Chequer's Wood and Old Park
- Church Woods, Blean
- Cobham Woods
- Combwell Wood
- Cowden Meadow
- Cowden Pound Pastures
- Darenth Wood
- Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs
- Down Bank
- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
- East Blean Woods
- Ellenden Wood
- Farningham Wood
- Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment
- Folkestone Warren
- Gibbin's Brook
- Great Crabbles Wood
- Great Shuttlesfield Down
- Halling to Trottiscliffe Escarpment
- Ham Street Woods
- Hatch Park
- Hoad's Wood
- Holborough to Burham Marshes
- Hollingbourne Downs
- Hothfield Common
- Ileden and Oxenden Woods
- Knole Park
- Larkey Valley Wood
- Lullingstone Park
- Lydden and Temple Ewell Downs
- Lympne Escarpment
- Lynsore Bottom
- Magpie Bottom
- Marden Meadows
- Medway Estuary and Marshes
- Northward Hill
- Oldbury and Seal Chart
- One Tree Hill and Bitchet Common
- Orlestone Forest
- Otford to Shoreham Downs
- Park Wood, Chilham
- Parkgate Down
- Parsonage Wood
- Peter's Pit
- Polebrook Farm
- Preston Marshes
- Purple Hill
- Queendown Warren
- River Beult
- Robins Wood
- Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
- Scord's Wood and Brockhoult Mount
- Scotney Castle
- Seabrook Stream
- Sevenoaks Gravel Pits
- Sheppey Cliffs and Foreshore
- Shorne and Ashenbank Woods
- Sissinghurst Park Wood
- South Thames Estuary and Marshes
- Stodmarsh
- The Swale
- Tankerton Slopes
- Thanet Coast
- Trottiscliffe Meadows
- West Blean and Thornden Woods
- Westerham Mines
- Westerham Wood
- Wouldham to Detling Escarpment
- Wye and Crundale Downs
- Yockletts Bank
- Allington Quarry
- Aylesford Pit
- Baker's Hole
- Chequer's Wood and Old Park
- Dalham Farm
- Dover to Kingsdown Cliffs
- Dryhill
- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
- Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment
- Folkestone Warren
- Greatness Brickworks
- Hart Hill
- High Rocks
- Houlder and Monarch Hill Pits, Upper Halling
- Hubbard's Hill
- Lenham Quarry
- Oaken Wood
- Otterpool Quarry
- Pembury Cutting and Pit
- Rusthall Common
- Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
- Sheppey Cliffs and Foreshore
- Southborough Pit
- Spot Lane Quarry
- Sturry Pit
- Swanscombe Skull Site
- Thanet Coast
- Tower Hill to Cockham Wood
- Wansunt Pit
- Wateringbury
- Wouldham to Detling Escarpment
- Wye and Crundale Downs
50°55′16″N 0°57′54″E / 50.921°N 0.965°E / 50.921; 0.965
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