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Rye Harbour
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location within East Sussex
Location	East Sussex
Grid reference	TQ935180
Coordinates	50°55′44″N 0°45′18″E / 50.929°N 0.755°E / 50.929; 0.755
Interest	Biological and Geological
Area	761.1 ha (1,881 acres)
Notification	1953 (1953)
Natural England website

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 Peninsula, the lower Rother Valley and the Pett Levels.

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. A much larger area is designated as the Rye Harbour Local Nature Reserve.

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.

References

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

External links

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex
Biological	Arlington Reservoir Ashburnham Park Ashdown Forest Bingletts Wood Bream Wood Brighton to Newhaven Cliffs Burgh Hill Farm Meadow Buxted Park Castle Hill Chailey Common Clayton to Offham Escarpment Combe Haven Dallington Forest Darwell Wood Ditchling Common Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay Eridge Green Eridge Park Firle Escarpment Folkington Reservoir Fore Wood Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach Heathfield Park Hemingfold Meadow Herstmonceux Park High Woods Kingston Escarpment and Iford Hill Leasam Heronry Wood Lewes Brooks Lewes Downs Lullington Heath Maplehurst Wood Marline Valley Woods Milton Gate Marsh Offham Marshes Paines Cross Meadow Park Corner Heath Penn's Rocks Pevensey Levels Plashett Park Wood Rock Wood Rye Harbour Sapperton Meadows Seaford to Beachy Head St Dunstan's Farm Meadows Stockland Farm Meadows Weir Wood Reservoir Willingdon Down Willingford Meadows Wilmington Downs
Geological	Asham Quarry Blackhorse Quarry Brede Pit and Cutting Brighton to Newhaven Cliffs Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay Hastingford Cutting Hastings Cliffs to Pett Beach High Rocks Houghton Green Cliff Lower Dicker Northiam River Line Rye Harbour Scaynes Hill Seaford to Beachy Head Southerham Grey Pit Southerham Machine Bottom Pit Southerham Works Pit Waldron Cutting Winchelsea Cutting

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