- Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay
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Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay Site of Special Scientific Interest 
Shown within KentArea of Search Kent & East Sussex Grid reference TR069201 Coordinates 50°56′35″N 0°56′46″E / 50.943°N 0.946°ECoordinates: 50°56′35″N 0°56′46″E / 50.943°N 0.946°E Interest Biological and Geological Area 9,090 ha (22,500 acres) Notification 2006 Natural England website Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest that stretches across two counties:Kent and East Sussex. It is of both geological and biological interest.
Its geological interest is the geomorphology of Dungeness and Rye Harbour. The area is a cuspate foreland formed of shingle ridges formed by thousands of years of coastal erosion and accretion.
The biological interest is due to its habitats of salt marsh, saline lagoons, vegetated shingle, sand dunes and ditch systems. These host a wide variety of fauna, some of which is nationally rare. The area also supports large numbers of breeding and non-breeding birds.
References
(PDF) SSSI Citation — Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay. Natural England. http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/2000533.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Kent, South East England Alex Farm Pastures • Alkham, Lydden And Swingfield Woods • Allington Quarry • Aylesford Pit • Baker's Hole • Bourne Alder Carr • Brookland Wood • Charing Beech Hangers • Chattenden Woods • Chequer's Wood And Old Park • Cheyne Court • Church Woods, Blean • Cobham Woods • Combwell Wood • Cowden Meadow • Cowden Pound Pastures • Dalham Farm • Darenth Wood Dover To Kingsdown Cliffs • Down Bank • Dryhill • Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay • East Blean Woods • Ellenden Wood • Farningham Wood • Folkestone To Etchinghill Escarpment • Folkestone Warren • Gibbin's Brook • Great Crabbles Wood • Great Shuttlesfield Down • Greatness Brickworks • Halling To Trottiscliffe Escarpment • Ham Street Woods • Hart Hill • Hatch Park • High Rocks • Hoad's Wood • Holborough To Burham Marshes • Hollingbourne Downs • Hothfield Common • Houlder And Monarch Hill Pits, Upper Halling • Hubbard's Hill • Ileden And Oxenden Woods • Knole Park • Larkey Valley Wood • Lenham Quarry • Lullingstone Park • Lydden And Temple Ewell Downs • Lympne Escarpment • Lynsore Bottom • Magpie Bottom • Marden Meadows • Medway Estuary And Marshes • North Lade • Northward Hill • Oaken Wood • Oldbury And Seal Chart • One Tree Hill And Bitchet Common • Orlestone Forest • Otford To Shoreham Downs • Otterpool Quarry • Park Wood, Chilham • Park Gate Down • Parsonage Wood • Pembury Cutting And Pit • Peter's Pit • Polebrook Farm • Preston Marshes • Purple Hill • Queendown Warren • River Beult • Robins Wood • Romney Warren • Rusthall Common • Sandwich Bay To Hacklinge Marshes • Scord's Wood And Brockhoult Mount • Scotney Castle Seabrook Stream • Sevenoaks Gravel Pits • Sheppey Cliffs And Foreshore • Shorne And Ashenbank Woods • Sissinghurst Park Wood • South Thames Estuary And Marshes Southborough Pit • Spot Lane Quarry • Stodmarsh • Sturry Pit • Swanscombe Skull Site • Tankerton Slopes • Thanet Coast • The Swale • Tower Hill To Cockham Wood • Trottiscliffe Meadows • Walland Marsh • Wansunt Pit • Wateringbury • West Blean And Thornden Woods • Westerham Mines • Westerham Wood • Wouldham To Detling Escarpment • Wye And Crundale Downs • Yockletts Bank
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