Uplees Marshes
Uplees Marshes is in Oare, Swale District, England. Uplees Marshes is situated nearby to the locality Harty Ferry, as well as near Luddenham Marshes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oare Marshes and Church of St Thomas the Apostle.
Oare Marshes
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oare Marshes is a 71.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Faversham in Kent. It is owned and managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. It is part of The Swale Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, National Nature Reserve, Ramsar internationally important wetland site, Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds, and Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Church of St Thomas the Apostle
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Thomas the Apostle in Harty on the Isle of Sheppey in the county of Kent is a Grade II* listed building. The date of founding cannot be fixed with certainty.
Cleve Hill Solar Park
Power station
Cleve Hill Solar Park is a photovoltaic power station on the Graveney marshes between Faversham and Whitstable, Kent in the UK. It started operations in July 2025.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Faversham and Uplees.
Faversham
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Faversham is a town in the English county of Kent, UK. The history of the town can traced back 2000 years to Roman times. Explosives were a major local industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Uplees
Hamlet
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Uplees is a remote hamlet north of Faversham, Kent in southeast England. It was a key part of the Faversham explosives industry during World War I, with the Cotton Powder Company importing raw materials via the deepwater channel of the Swale, and the associated Explosives Loading Company exporting completed bombs and shells.
Harty
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harty is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Leysdown, on the Isle of Sheppey, in the Swale district, in the county of Kent, England. It consists of a few cottages, a church and a public house, the Ferry Inn.
Uplees Marshes
- Type: Wetland
- Category: body of water
- Location: Oare, Swale District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3509° or 51° 21′ 3″ northLongitude
0.872° or 0° 52′ 19″ eastOpen location code
9F329V2C+8ROpenStreetMap ID
way 963982882OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetland
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Localities in the Area
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