Mucking Flats and Marshes

Mucking Flats and Marshes
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Essex
Grid reference	TQ 696785
Interest	Biological
Area	311.6 hectares
Notification	1991
Location map	Magic Map

Mucking Flats and Marshes is a 311.6 biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Tilbury in Essex.^[1]^[2] It is part of the Thames Estuary and Marshes Ramsar site^[3] and Special Protection Area^[4]

The site is an extensive stretch of mudflats, saltmarsh and the sea wall, on the eastern side of the River Thames. Wildfowl and waders feed and roost on the site, with internationally important numbers of ringed plover, and nationally significant shelducks, grey plovers, dunlins, black-tailed godwits and redshanks. Plants include the nationally scarce golden samphire, and invertebrates the rare spider baryphyma duffeyi.^[1]

The Thames Estuary Path goes through the site.^[5]

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References

1 2 "Mucking Flats and Marshes citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
↑ "Map of Mucking Flats and Marshes". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
↑ "Thames Estuary and Marshes". The Ramsar Convention Secretariat. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
↑ "Thames Estuary and Marshes". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
↑ "Thames Estuary Path 2: East Tilbury to Stanford-le-Hope". Thames Chase. Retrieved 3 August 2016.

Coordinates: 51°29′46″N 0°26′56″E / 51.496°N 0.449°E / 51.496; 0.449

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex

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