Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve

Rainham Marshes is an RSPB nature reserve in the east of London, adjacent to the Thames Estuary in Purfleet, Thurrock and the London Borough of Havering.

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Wetland
Description: marshland nature reserve in Greater London and Essex, England, UK
Also known as: “Inner Thames Marshes” and “Rainham Marshes”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rainham railway station and Rainham Hall.

Rainham railway station

Railway station

Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rainham railway station is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Rainham in the London Borough of Havering, east London. Historically in the county of Essex, in official literature the station is sometimes shown as Rainham in order to distinguish it from the station of the same name in Kent.

Rainham Hall

Museum

Photo: ㇹヮィㇳ, CC BY 2.0.

Rainham Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian house, owned by the National Trust, in Rainham, in the London Borough of Havering. Built in 1729 for Captain John Harle, the house was transferred to the National Trust in 1949.

Church of St Helen and St Giles

Church

Photo: Max Naylor, Public domain.

St Helen and St Giles is a church and landmark of Rainham and is the oldest building in the London Borough of Havering. The church retains many of its original features, for example the round-headed arches.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dartford and Erith.

Dartford

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dartford is a commuter town for Greater London in Kent, with a long history of religious, industrial and cultural importance town.

Erith

Town

Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Erith is an area in south-east London, England, 13.3 miles east of Charing Cross. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in the historical county of Kent.

Dagenham

Suburb

Photo: MRSC, Public domain.

Dagenham is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Dagenham is centred 11+1⁄2 miles east of Charing Cross. It was historically a rural parish in the Becontree Hundred of Essex, stretching from Hainault Forest in the north to the River Thames in the south.

Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve

Categories: marsh, nature reserve, and body of water
Location: Havering, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5012° or 51° 30′ 5″ north

Longitude

0.2063° or 0° 12′ 23″ east

Operator

RSPB

Open location code

9F32G624+FG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1493514631

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wetland

Wikidata ID

Q7284890

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Welsh—“Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve” goes by many names.

Chinese: “雷纳姆沼泽自然保护区”
Dutch: “Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve”
Irish: “Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve”
Welsh: “Gwarchodfa Natur Corsydd Rainham”

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