page_title: Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
hierarchical_section_title: Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes
caption_attribution_description: English: Pegwell Bay, Kent Photo taken from the Cliffsend to Pegwell path. To the right are houses along the Sandwich Road and in the background is the disused Richborough Power Station. In the middle of the photo, jutting into the bay, is the disused Hovercraft landing pad.
context_page_description: Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes is a 1,790.1-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches between Deal and Sandwich in Kent. It includes two Geological Conservation Review sites, and most of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Part of it is a Ramsar site, a Special Area of Conservation, a Special Protection Area and a National Nature Reserve, It also includes a Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserve and a Local Nature Reserve,
  This site has over 30 plant species and 168 invertebrates which are nationally rare and nationally scarce, and several wintering birds are present in nationally important numbers. It is also a geologically important site, with diverse fish fossils dating to the Thanetian around 57 million years ago.
context_section_description: Sandwich Bay to Hacklinge Marshes is a 1,790.1-hectare (4,423-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches between Deal and Sandwich in Kent. It includes two Geological Conservation Review sites, and most of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. Part of it is a Ramsar site, a Special Area of Conservation, a Special Protection Area and a National Nature Reserve, It also includes a Kent Wildlife Trust nature reserve and a Local Nature Reserve,
  This site has over 30 plant species and 168 invertebrates which are nationally rare and nationally scarce, and several wintering birds are present in nationally important numbers. It is also a geologically important site, with diverse fish fossils dating to  the Thanetian around 57 million years ago.
caption: Pegwell Bay
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