Rye Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest

Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...

 is a nature reserve located on the western side of the mouth of the River Rother at Rye Harbour

Rye Harbour

Rye Harbour is a village located on the East Sussex coast in southeast England, near the estuary of the River Rother: it is part of the civil parish of Icklesham. Rye Harbour is located some two miles downstream of the town of Rye....

, about 1 mile downstream from Rye

Rye

Rye is a grass grown extensively as a grain and as a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe and is closely related to barley and wheat. Rye grain is used for flour, rye bread, rye beer, some whiskeys, some vodkas, and animal fodder...

East Sussex. It forms part of a wide network of SSSI's on the Kent-Sussex border that include the Romney & Walland Marsh, the Dungeness Peninsular, the lower Rother Valley and the Pett Levels..

It is a complicated site of both biological and geological interest. Varied habitats of shingle, saltmarsh and intertidal muds hosts a wide variety of flora and fauna.

Part of the site is also designated as part of the Rye Harbour Local Nature Reserve.

External links

• http://rxwildlife.org.uk/category/rye-harbour-nature-reserve/
• http://www.wildrye.info/
• http://www.wildrye.info/reserve/about/map.php