Thanet Coast

Thanet Coast
Site of Special Scientific Interest
LocationKent
Grid referenceTR 283 696[1]
InterestBiological
Geological
Area816.9 hectares (2,019 acres)[1]
Notification1990[1]
Location mapMagic Map
Designations
Official nameThanet Coast & Sandwich Bay
Designated28 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

  1. ^ a b c d "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Thanet Coast & Sandwich Bay". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Map of Thanet Coast". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Designated Sites View: Tankerton Slopes and Swalecliffe". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Designated Sites View: Thanet Coast and Sandwich Bay". Special Protection Area. Natural England. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Designated Sites View: Bishopstone Cliffs". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Thanet Coast citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  11. ^ "'God's acres': the land owned by the Church Commissioners". Who Owns England?. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
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