Pevensey Levels
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | East Sussex |
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Grid reference | TQ 647 076[1] |
Interest | Biological |
Area | 3,603.2 hectares (8,904 acres)[1] |
Notification | 1990[1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Pevensey Levels is a 3,603.2-hectare (8,904-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Bexhill-on-Sea and Hailsham in East Sussex.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I,[3] a Ramsar site[4] and a Special Area of Conservation.[5] An area of 183.5 hectares (453 acres) is a national nature reserve[6] and an area of 150 hectares (370 acres) is a nature reserve called Pevensey Marshes which is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust.[7]
This is a large area of wetland grazing meadows intersected by a network of ditches. It has many nationally rare invertebrates. It may be the best site in Britain for freshwater mollusc fauna, including the endangered shining ram's-horn snail. It also has one nationally rare and several nationally scarce aquatic plants and it is of national importance for lapwing, with more than 1% of the British population.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Pevensey Levels". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ "Map of Pevensey Levels". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 166. ISBN 0521 21403 3.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Pevensey Levels". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Pevensey Levels". Special Areas of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Pevensey Levels". National Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "Pevensey Marshes". Sussex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "Pevensey Levels citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
50°50′38″N 0°20′17″E / 50.844°N 0.338°E / 50.844; 0.338
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- Arlington Reservoir
- Ashburnham Park
- Ashdown Forest
- Bingletts Wood
- Bream Wood
- Brighton to Newhaven Cliffs
- Burgh Hill Farm Meadow
- Buxted Park
- Castle Hill
- Chailey Common
- Clayton to Offham Escarpment
- Combe Haven
- Dallington Forest
- Darwell Wood
- Ditchling Common
- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
- Eridge Green
- Eridge Park
- Firle Escarpment
- Folkington Reservoir
- Fore Wood
- Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach
- Heathfield Park
- Hemingfold Meadow
- Herstmonceux Park
- High Woods
- Kingston Escarpment and Iford Hill
- Leasam Heronry Wood
- Lewes Brooks
- Lewes Downs
- Lullington Heath
- Maplehurst Wood
- Marline Valley Woods
- Milton Gate Marsh
- Offham Marshes
- Paines Cross Meadow
- Park Corner Heath
- Penn's Rocks
- Pevensey Levels
- Plashett Park Wood
- Rock Wood
- Rye Harbour
- Sapperton Meadows
- Seaford to Beachy Head
- St Dunstan's Farm Meadows
- Stockland Farm Meadows
- Weir Wood Reservoir
- Willingdon Down
- Willingford Meadows
- Wilmington Downs
- Asham Quarry
- Blackhorse Quarry
- Brede Pit and Cutting
- Brighton to Newhaven Cliffs
- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
- Hastingford Cutting
- Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach
- High Rocks
- Houghton Green Cliff
- Lower Dicker
- Northiam
- River Line
- Rye Harbour
- Scaynes Hill
- Seaford to Beachy Head
- Southerham Grey Pit
- Southerham Machine Bottom Pit
- Southerham Works Pit
- Waldron Cutting
- Winchelsea Cutting