Rye Harbour SSSI

Rye Harbour
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Shown within East Sussex
Area of Search	East Sussex
Grid reference	TQ935180
Coordinates	50°55′44″N 0°45′18″E / 50.929°N 0.755°E / 50.929; 0.755Coordinates: 50°55′44″N 0°45′18″E / 50.929°N 0.755°E / 50.929; 0.755
Interest	Biological and Geologial
Area	761.1 ha (1,881 acres)
Notification	1953 (1953)
Natural England website

Rye Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest is a nature reserve located on the western side of the mouth of the River Rother at Rye Harbour, about 1 mile downstream from Rye East Sussex. It forms part of a wide network of SSSI's on the Kent-Sussex border that include the Romney & Walland Marsh, the Dungeness Peninsular, the lower Rother Valley and the Pett Levels.^[1]^[2]^[3]

It is a complicated site of both biological and geological interest. Varied habitats of shingle, saltmarsh and intertidal muds host a wide variety of flora and fauna. It forms the second largest area of shingle habitat in southern England, only surpassed in area by Dungeness.^[2] A much larger area is designated as the Rye Harbour Local Nature Reserve.^[4]^[5]

References

↑ "Sites of Special Scientific Interest" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
1 2 "Rye Harbour citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
↑ "Map of Rye Harbour". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
↑ "Rye Harbour". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
↑ "Map of Rye Harbour". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.

External links

Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in East Sussex, South East England

Arlington Reservoir Asham Quarry Ashburnham Park Ashdown Forest Bingletts Wood Blackhorse Quarry Bream Wood Brede Pit and Cutting 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 Hastingford Cutting Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach Heathfield Park Hemingfold Meadow Herstmonceux Park High Rocks High Woods Houghton Green Cliff Kingston Escarpment and Iford Hill Leasam Heronry Wood Lewes Brooks Lewes Downs Lower Dicker Lullington Heath Maplehurst Wood Marline Valley Woods Milton Gate Marsh Northiam Offham Marshes Paines Cross Meadow Park Corner Heath Penn's Rocks Pevensey Levels Plashett Park Wood River Line Rock Wood Rye Harbour Sapperton Meadows Seaford to Beachy Head Southerham Grey Pit Southerham Machine Bottom Pit Southerham Works Pit St. Dunstan's Farm Meadows Stockland Farm Meadows Waldron Cutting Weir Wood Reservoir Willingdon Down Willingford Meadows Wilmington Downs Winchelsea Cutting

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