Cattawade Marshes

Cattawade Marshes
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Essex Suffolk
Grid reference	TM090329
Interest	Biological
Area	88.2 hectares
Notification	1988
Location map	Magic Map

Cattawade Marshes is an 88.3 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between East Bergholt and Manningtree in Essex and Suffolk.^[1]^[2] It is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.^[3] It is a Ramsar wetland of international importance,^[4] and part of the Stour and Orwell Special Protection Area, and the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty^[5]

The site is a marsh area between two arms of the River Stour. It is of major importance for breeding birds, especially waders and wildfowl, such as Shoveler, Teal, Tufted Duck and Water Rail. Other habitats are grassland and ditches.^[1]^[3]

There is no public access but the site can be viewed from a public footpath on the south side of the river.^[3]

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References

1 2 "Cattawade Marshes citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
↑ "Map of Cattawade Marshes". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
1 2 3 "Cattawade Marshes". Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
↑ "Cattawade Marshes". Natural England. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
↑ "Dedham Vale AONB and Stour Valley – Management Plan 2010-2015" (PDF). Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Stour Valley Project. p. 21. Retrieved 4 December 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Essex

Biological	Abberton Reservoir Ashdon Meadows Basildon Meadows Belcher's and Broadfield Woods Benfleet and Southend Marshes Blackwater Estuary Blake's Wood & Lingwood Common Bovingdon Hall Woods Bullock Wood Canvey Wick Cattawade Marshes Chalkney Wood Colne Estuary The Coppice, Kelvedon Hatch Cornmill Stream and Old River Lea Crouch and Roach Estuaries Curtismill Green Danbury Common Debden Water Dengie Elsenham Woods Epping Forest Foulness Garnetts Wood and Barnston Lays Garrold's Meadow Glemsford Pits Grays Thurrock Chalk Pit Great Wood and Dodd's Grove Hainault Forest Hales and Shadwell Woods Hamford Water Hangman's Wood and Deneholes Hanningfield Reservoir Harlow Woods Hatfield Forest High Wood, Dunmow Hockley Woods Holehaven Creek Holland Haven Marshes Hunsdon Mead Inner Thames Marshes Little Hallingbury Marsh Mill Meadows Mucking Flats and Marshes Norsey Wood Nunn Wood Pitsea Marsh Quendon Wood Riddles Wood Roding Valley Meadows Roman River Sandbeach Meadows Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey Stour Estuary Thorndon Park Thrift Wood, Woodham Ferrers Thundersley Great Common Tiptree Heath Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Upper Colne Marshes Vange and Fobbing Marshes Waltham Abbey Weeleyhall Wood West Thurrock Lagoon and Marshes West Wood, Little Sampford Woodham Walter Common

Geological	Ardleigh Gravel Pit Clacton Cliffs and Foreshore The Cliff, Burnham-on-Crouch Colne Estuary Dengie Globe Pit Goldsands Road Pit Hall's Quarry Harwich Foreshore Holland-on-Sea Cliff Lion Pit Little Oakley Channel Deposit Lofts Farm Pit Maldon Cutting Marks Tey Brickpit The Naze Newney Green Pit Purfleet Chalk Pits Purfleet Road, Aveley River Ter St Osyth Pit Stour Estuary Wivenhoe Gravel Pit

Coordinates: 51°57′23″N 1°02′54″E / 51.9564°N 1.0483°E / 51.9564; 1.0483

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