Rye Harbour SSSI

Rye Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest is a nature reserve located on the western side of the mouth of the River Rother at Rye Harbour, about 1 mile downstream from Rye East Sussex. It forms part of a wide network of SSSI's on the Kent-Sussex border that include the Romney & Walland Marsh, the Dungeness Peninsular, the lower Rother Valley and the Pett Levels.[1][2]

Rye Harbour
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location within East Sussex
Area of SearchEast Sussex
Grid referenceTQ935180
Coordinates50.929°N 0.755°E / 50.929; 0.755
InterestBiological and Geological
Area761.1 ha (1,881 acres)
Notification1953 (1953)
Natural England website

It is a complicated site of both biological and geological interest. Varied habitats of shingle, saltmarsh and intertidal muds host a wide variety of flora and fauna. It forms the second largest area of shingle habitat in southern England, only surpassed in area by Dungeness.[1] A much larger area is designated as the Rye Harbour Local Nature Reserve.[3][4]

The Natural England citation for the site covers an area of 761 hectares, but the details page and map cover a small area of 5.6 hectares north of the nature reserve. The area covered by the map may have been transferred to the Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay SSSI, but the citations are for the old SSSIs.[5][6]

References
  1. "Rye Harbour citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  2. "Map of Rye Harbour". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  3. "Rye Harbour". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  4. "Map of Rye Harbour". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  5. "Designated Sites View: Rye Harbour". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  6. "Designated Sites View: Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 25 March 2019.


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