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Sawbridgeworth Marsh
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Location	Hertfordshire Essex
Grid reference	TL492158
Interest	Biological
Area	6.3 hectares
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Sawbridgeworth Marsh is a 6.3-hectare (16-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) near Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, apart from a small area in the north which is in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. The planning authorities are East Hertfordshire District Council and Uttlesford District Council.

The site is a river valley marsh close to the River Stort, which has a varied wetland flora. Grazing and cutting of the marsh in rotation maintain biological diversity. The site also has an important wetland fauna and many moth species. Uncommon plants include marsh willowherb, marsh valerian and marsh arrow-grass, and drainage ditches and two ponds have a rich aquatic life.

The site is always open and there is access from Hallingbury Road.

Notes

Comparison of the Natural England (NE) map with the county boundaries shows that a very small area in the north of the site is in Essex. The Natural England citation shows it in both counties and jointly owned by the Essex and Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trusts, but it is not included in the NE list of Essex SSSIs. The site is also not included in the Misplaced Pages list of Essex SSSIs as this is based on the NE list. The Essex Wildlife Trust page on the site states that it is jointly owned, but it is not listed on the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust website.

References

^ "Sawbridgeworth Marsh citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
"Map of Sawbridgeworth Marsh". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
^ "Sawbridgeworth Marsh Nature Reserve". Essex Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire
Biological	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Amwell Quarry Ashridge Commons and Woods Ashwell Springs Benington High Wood Blagrove Common Bricket Wood Common Croxley Common Moor Frogmore Meadows Great Hormead Park Hertford Heath Hunsdon Mead Knebworth Woods Moor Hall Meadows Northaw Great Wood Oddy Hill and Tring Park Patmore Heath Plashes Wood Redwell Wood Roughdown Common Rye Meads Sarratt Bottom Sawbridgeworth Marsh Sherrardspark Wood Tewinbury Therfield Heath Thorley Flood Pound Tring Reservoirs Tring Woodlands Turnford and Cheshunt Pits Wain Wood Water End Swallow Holes Whippendell Wood Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood North Wormley-Hoddesdonpark Wood South
Geological	Castle Lime Works Quarry Downfield Pit, Westmill Hillcollins Pit Little Heath Pit Moor Mill Quarry, West Oughtonhead Lane Westwood Quarry

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire

Biological

Geological

v t e Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
Dacorum	Aldbury Nowers Alpine Meadow Long Deans Tring Reservoirs
East Hertfordshire	Amwell Quarry Balls Wood Danemead Hertford Heath Hunsdon and Eastwick Meads King's Meads Patmore Heath Rye Meads Tewin Orchard and Hopkyns Wood Tewinbury Thorley Wash Waterford Heath Willowmead
Hertsmere	Hilfield Park Reservoir
North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Quarry and Quarry Springs Blagrove Common Fox Covert Hawkins Wood Hexton Chalk Pit Oughtonhead Purwell Ninesprings
Stevenage	Ridlins Mire
Three Rivers	Frogmore Meadows Longspring Wood Stocker's Lake
Watford	Cassiobury Park
Welwyn Hatfield	Fir and Pond Woods Gobions Wood Lemsford Springs Stanborough Reedmarsh Stocking Springs Wood
Hillingdon	Broadwater Lake Old Park Wood Uxbridge Alderglade
Former reserves	Barkway Chalk Pit Darland's Lake Nature Reserve Hill End Pit Marshalls Heath Pryor's Wood Rowley Green Common Sawbridgeworth Marsh Telegraph Hill

v t e Essex Wildlife Trust
Basildon	Langdon Nature Reserve
Braintree	Brookes Nature Reserve
Brentwood	Thorndon Countryside Centre Warley Place
Castle Point	Little Haven Pound Wood Tile Wood
Chelmsford	Crowsheath Wood Danbury Ridge Hanningfield Reservoir Little Waltham Meadows Newland Grove Phyllis Currie Sandylay and Moat Woods Shotgate Thickets Thrift Wood Woodham Fen
Colchester	Abberton Reservoir Abbotts Hall Farm Fingringhoe Wick Iron Latch Lexden Gathering Grounds Roman River Valley Sergeants Orchard Tiptree Heath Westhouse Wood
Epping Forest	Gernon Bushes Roding Valley Meadows
Harlow	Hunsdon Mead
Havering	Bedfords Park Cranham Marsh Ingrebourne Valley
Maldon	Blue House Farm Bradwell Shell Bank Chigborough Lakes Maldon Wick Oxley Meadow Shut Heath Wood Stow Maries Halt Tollesbury Wick
Rochford	Lion Creek and Lower Raypits
Southend-on-Sea	Belfairs Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges Two Tree Island
Tendring	Cockaynes Wood Colne Point Copperas Wood Great Holland Pits Howlands Marsh John Weston Nature Reserve The Naze Oakfield Wood Skipper's Island Wrabness
Thurrock	Grove House Wood Linford Wood Chafford Gorges Nature Park Fobbing Marsh Horndon Meadow Stanford Warren Thurrock Thameside Nature Park
Uttlesford	Aubrey Buxton Rushy Mead Sawbridgeworth Marsh Shadwell Wood Weeleyhall Wood West Wood

51°49′15″N 0°09′48″E / 51.8209°N 0.1634°E / 51.8209; 0.1634

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