Rye Meads

Rye Meads
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Tufted duck in Rye Meads RSPB reserve
Area of Search	Hertfordshire
Grid reference	TL385105
Interest	Biological
Area	58.5 hectares
Notification	1989
Location map	Magic Map

Rye Meads is a 58.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Rye House, Hertfordshire. It is next to the River Lea in the Lee Valley Regional Park. Part of it is the RSPB Rye Meads nature reserve (formerly the Rye House Marsh nature reserve). A meadow is rented by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, and another meadow and lagoons are owned by Thames Water. The planning authority is East Hertfordshire District Council.^[1]^[2]

The RSPB reserve has ten birdwatching hides, wheelchair-friendly trails and a visitor centre. Birds include kingfishers, snipe, green sandpipers, shovelers, gadwalls and tufted ducks.^[3]

The Herts and Middlesex site is an ancient flood meadow which has a variety of habitats, reedbeds, marshy grasslands and fen vegetation. It is grazed by ponies and water buffalo.^[4]

The site can by accessed from Rye Road, which goes through the middle of the reserve.

References

↑ "Rye Meads citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "Map of Rye Meads". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "Rye Meads". Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "Rye Meads". Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

Biological	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Amwell Quarry Ashridge Commons and Woods Ashwell Springs Benington High Wood Blagrove Common Bricket Wood Common Croxley Common Moor Frogmore Meadows Great Hormead Park Hertford Heath Hunsdon Mead Knebworth Woods Moor Hall Meadows Northaw Great Wood Oddy Hill and Tring Park Patmore Heath Plashes Wood Redwell Wood Roughdown Common Rye Meads Sarratt Bottom Sawbridgeworth Marsh Sherrardspark Wood Tewinbury Therfield Heath Thorley Flood Pound Tring Reservoirs Tring Woodlands Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Wain Wood Water End Swallow Holes Whippendell Wood Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South

Geological	Castle Lime Works Quarry Downfield Pit, Westmill Hillcollins Pit Little Heath Pit Moor Mill Quarry, West Oughtonhead Lane Westwood Quarry

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

Nature reserves	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Blagrove Common Broadwater Lake Cassiobury Park Danemead Fox Covert Frogmore Meadow Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads Old Park Wood Patmore Heath Pryor's Wood Rye Meads Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocker's Lake Tewinbury Thorley Wash Tring Reservoirs Uxbridge Alderglade Waterford Heath

Coordinates: 51°46′34″N 0°00′22″E / 51.7760°N 0.0061°E / 51.7760; 0.0061

Rye Meads

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