Bradwell Shell Bank

Bradwell Shell Bank
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TypeNature reserve
LocationBradwell-on-Sea, Essex
OS gridTM 035 081
AreaN/Av
Managed byEssex Wildlife Trust

Bradwell Shell Bank is a nature reserve on the coast of the Dengie Peninsula near Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.[1] It is part of the Dengie Site of Special Scientific Interest,[2][3] Special Protection Area[4] and Ramsar site,[5] and the Essex Estuaries Special Area of Conservation.[6] It is also part of the Blackwater Flats and Marshes, a Grade I site in the Nature Conservation Review.[2][7]

The site is a large area of saltmarsh together with some 12 hectares (30 acres) of shell bank. Birds which breed on the shell bank include little terns and ringed plovers, and there many species on the saltmarsh. There are flora such as yellow-horned poppies, grass-leaved oraches and rock samphires.[1]

Part of the reserve is accessible at low tide by a footpath from the Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Bradwell Shell Bank". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Dengie citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Map of Dengie". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands (RIS): Dengie (Mid-Essex Coast Phase 1)" (PDF). DEFRA. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Essex Estuaries". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  7. ^ Ratcliffe, Derek (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 7–8. ISBN 0521-21403-3.