Shore crab (Credit Mark Thomas)
Seahenge is located within Norfolk Wildlife Trust's beautiful Holme Dune National Nature Reserve.
This site supports approximately 40,000 wintering seabirds.
Seahenge is located within Norfolk Wildlife Trusts’ Holme Dune National Nature Reserve and is part of the North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest.
This intertidal area has been identified as important due to the presence of peat and clay exposures. Look carefully and you may see a shore crab hidden in cracks and crevices here. These features can easily be seen on the site projecting up to 15cm above the sand. The peat contains within it several interesting features, such as tree stumps, blue mussel beds and evidence of piddocks burrowing.
This area supports approximately 40,000 wintering seabirds, including nationally important Arctic, common and Sandwich terns. Northern fulmars and Roseate terns are also found here.
This recommended Marine Conservation Zone is ON HOLD at the moment as it was recommended as a Reference Area.
We need you to urge Defra to consider designating this site as an MCZ to protect the peat and clay beds.
This site has been put forward as a reference area (a highly protected MCZ) and is on hold at the moment as Defra review the designation of Reference Areas. This site is particularly important due to the presence of peat and clay beds which are rare to the region.
We need you to urge Defra to consider designating this site as an MCZ to protect the peat and clay beds.
Other nearby MCZs
Dogs Head Sandbanks Blakeney Seagrass
Location map
Seahenge Peat and Clay recommended MCZ is located in the map below.
Contains UKHO Law of the Sea data. Crown copyright and database right and contains Ordnance Survey Data Crown copyright and database 2012
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