Thorness Bay
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Thorness Bay is a 86.2 hectare Site of special scientific interest
which is located on the north-west coast of the Isle of Wight
, England, in the western arm of the Solent. The site was notified in 1966 for both its biological and geological features.
The bay stretches about 3 km from Salt Mead Ledge in the west to Gurnard Head to the east.
The sea bed is a mixture of mud and sand.
A small un-named brook
enters the sea in the middle of the bay after passing though a marsh
.
Little Thorness Farm, a beef farm near the bay has 18 acres (72,843.5 m²) of protected marshland under stewardship and is a SSSI because it is home to wildlife not found in other areas.
. It has a direct footpath leading straight to the beach.
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...
which is located on the north-west coast of the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
, England, in the western arm of the Solent. The site was notified in 1966 for both its biological and geological features.
The bay stretches about 3 km from Salt Mead Ledge in the west to Gurnard Head to the east.
The sea bed is a mixture of mud and sand.
A small un-named brook
Stream
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...
enters the sea in the middle of the bay after passing though a marsh
Marsh
In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland that is subject to frequent or continuous flood. Typically the water is shallow and features grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, other herbaceous plants, and moss....
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Little Thorness Farm, a beef farm near the bay has 18 acres (72,843.5 m²) of protected marshland under stewardship and is a SSSI because it is home to wildlife not found in other areas.
Holiday Park
Thorness Bay also has a holiday park run by Park ResortsPark Resorts
Park Resorts Limited is a UK private limited company which has been owned since 2007 by the US private equity firm, GI Partners, via the UK parent company, Dome Holdings Ltd....
. It has a direct footpath leading straight to the beach.