Mucking Flats and Marshes
Mucking Flats and Marshes is a 311.6 biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Tilbury in Essex. It is part of the Thames Estuary and Marshes Ramsar site. and Special Protection Area The site is an extensive stretch of mudflats, saltmarsh and the sea wall, on the eastern side of the River Thames.Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Wetland
- Description: UK Site of Special Scientific Interest
- Also known as: “Mucking Flats”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stanford-le-Hope railway station and Stanford Warren.
Stanford-le-Hope railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford-le-Hope railway station is on a loop line of the London, Tilbury and Southend line, serving the town of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. It is 27 miles 13 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street via Rainham and it is situated between East Tilbury and Pitsea.
Stanford Warren
Nature reserve
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford Warren is a 16.6-hectare nature reserve south of Stanford-le-Hope in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This former gravel quarry is bisected by the River Hassenbrook.
Thurrock Thameside Nature Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Artexplorer434, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thurrock Thameside Nature Park is an Essex Wildlife Trust nature reserve located on top of the former Mucking Marshes Landfill in Thurrock, England which will eventually cover 845 acres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stanford and East Tilbury.
Stanford
Town
Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanford-le-Hope is a town in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. Often known locally simply as Stanford, the town is located 24 miles east of Charing Cross in central London.
East Tilbury
Village
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Tilbury is a community in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. The community is in two main parts, being the older village near the banks of the River Thames, and a garden village to the north which was initially called Bataville, founded in the 1930s to serve the Bata shoe factory.
Corringham
Village
Photo: Rjm at sleepers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corringham is a town in the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. It lies immediately east of Stanford-le-Hope, its post town, and Corringham is now classed as part of the Stanford-le-Hope built up area by the Office for National Statistics.
Mucking Flats and Marshes
- Categories: Site of Special Scientific Interest and body of water
- Location: Thurrock, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4992° or 51° 29′ 57″ northLongitude
0.4547° or 0° 27′ 17″ eastOpen location code
9F32FFX3+MVOpenStreetMap ID
way 798477976OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetlandWikidata ID
Q27990741
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