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Benfleet and Southend Marshes

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foreshore. It has been so recognised for its biological (including ecological) value, rather than geological. A definition five percent larger forms the
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The marshes and mudflats have internationally important numbers of wildfowl and wading birds, including the
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as a site of national importance. The SSSI and NNR include the eastern half of
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butterfly, have adapted to specific habitats in the marshes.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Essex
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Scarce invertebrates, such as the 1515:Special Protection Areas in England 168:Site of Special Scientific Interest 166:is an 8.1-square-mile (21 km) 39:Site of Special Scientific Interest 620:Blake's Wood & Lingwood Common 525:"Map of Southend on Sea Foreshore" 463:"Essex's National Nature Reserves" 25: 660:Cornmill Stream and Old River Lea 298:"Benfleet & Southend Marshes" 1525:Nature Conservation Review sites 905:West Thurrock Lagoon and Marshes 850:Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey 705:Garnetts Wood and Barnston Lays 435:"Benfleet and Southend Marshes" 137:Benfleet & Southend Marshes 1085:Local nature reserves in Essex 605:Belcher's and Broadfield Woods 1: 1334:Thornwood Common Flood Meadow 988:Little Oakley Channel Deposit 610:Benfleet and Southend Marshes 180:Benfleet and Southend Marshes 164:Benfleet and Southend Marshes 33:Benfleet and Southend Marshes 943:The Cliff, Burnham-on-Crouch 938:Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore 865:Thrift Wood, Woodham Ferrers 745:Hangman's Wood and Deneholes 198:A Nature Conservation Review 725:Great Wood and Dodd's Grove 655:The Coppice, Kelvedon Hatch 499:"Southend on Sea Foreshore" 1546: 1339:Weald Common Flood Meadows 1134:Brickfield and Long Meadow 910:West Wood, Little Sampford 880:Turnford and Cheshunt Pits 665:Crouch and Roach Estuaries 1438:Southend on Sea Foreshore 890:Vange and Fobbing Marshes 805:Mucking Flats and Marshes 305:Sites Information Service 214:Southend on Sea Foreshore 157: 44: 37: 18:Southend-on-Sea Foreshore 1367:Parndon Woods and Common 1304:Church Lane Flood Meadow 1213:Chelmer Valley Riverside 1101:Mill Meadows, Billericay 870:Thundersley Great Common 795:Little Hallingbury Marsh 735:Hales and Shadwell Woods 720:Grays Thurrock Chalk Pit 224:dark-bellied brent goose 208:which is managed by the 1510:Ramsar sites in England 1433:Shoeburyness Old Ranges 240:white-letter hairstreak 194:National Nature Reserve 187:Special Protection Area 750:Hanningfield Reservoir 479:. Essex Wildlife Trust 1324:Roding Valley Meadows 1023:Purfleet Road, Aveley 915:Woodham Walter Common 835:Roding Valley Meadows 780:Holland Haven Marshes 1461:Pickers Ditch Meadow 1276:Tiptree Parish Field 978:Holland-on-Sea Cliff 790:Inner Thames Marshes 625:Bovingdon Hall Woods 250:Notes and References 217:Local Nature Reserve 210:Essex Wildlife Trust 1271:Spring Lane Meadows 1177:Hutton Country Park 1043:Wivenhoe Gravel Pit 1018:Purfleet Chalk Pits 933:Ardleigh Gravel Pit 885:Upper Colne Marshes 505:on 19 November 2015 34: 1329:Roughtalley's Wood 1129:Bocking Blackwater 1003:Marks Tey Brickpit 963:Goldsands Road Pit 615:Blackwater Estuary 590:Abberton Reservoir 465:. Natural England. 150:Reference no. 1497: 1496: 1362:Hawkenbury Meadow 1299:Chigwell Row Wood 1223:Galleywood Common 1149:Gosfield Sandpits 1139:Brockwell Meadows 1051: 1050: 973:Harwich Foreshore 845:Sandbeach Meadows 765:High Wood, Dunmow 640:Cattawade Marshes 477:"Two Tree Island" 415:. 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Index

Southend-on-Sea Foreshore
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location
Grid reference
TQ854847
Notification
Magic Map
Ramsar Wetland
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Essex
Southend-on-Sea
Ramsar site
Special Protection Area
National Nature Reserve
Two Tree Island
Leigh on Sea
Essex Wildlife Trust
Local Nature Reserve
dark-bellied brent goose
grey plover
redshank
red knot
white-letter hairstreak
marbled white
"Benfleet & Southend Marshes"
Ramsar


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