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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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
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.
Erith railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Erith station serves Erith in the London Borough of Bexley, southeast London. It is 14 miles 18 chains measured from London Charing Cross. The station stands between Belvedere and Slade Green on the North Kent line and is served by Greenwich line trains…
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″ northLongitude
0.2063° or 0° 12′ 23″ eastOperator
RSPBOpen location code
9F32G624+FGOpenStreetMap ID
way 149373500OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetlandWikidata ID
Q7284890
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve”. Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 3.0.