Thanet Coast
Site of Special Scientific Interest | |
Location | Kent |
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Grid reference | TR 283 696[1] |
Interest | Biological Geological |
Area | 816.9 hectares (2,019 acres)[1] |
Notification | 1990[1] |
Location map | Magic Map |
Designations | |
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Ramsar Wetland | |
Official name | Thanet Coast & Sandwich Bay |
Designated | 28 July 1994 |
Reference no. | 664[2] |
Thanet Coast is an 816.9-hectare (2,019-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Whitstable and Ramsgate in Kent.[1][3] It is a Geological Conservation Review site,[4] and overlaps two Special Area of Conservations.[5][6] It is also part of a Ramsar Site[7] and a Special Protection Area.[8] Part of it is a Local Nature Reserve,[9]
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.[10]
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[11]
References
- ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "Thanet Coast & Sandwich Bay". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ "Map of Thanet Coast". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "Thanet Coast (Cenomanian, Turonian, Senonian, Maastrichtian)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Archived from the original on 12 January 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Tankerton Slopes and Swalecliffe". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay". Special Protection Area. Natural England. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Bishopstone Cliffs". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Thanet Coast citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
- ^ "'God's acres': the land owned by the Church Commissioners". Who Owns England?. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
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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