Thanet Coast

Thanet Coast is an 816.9-hectare (2,019-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Whitstable and Ramsgate in Kent.^[1][3] It is a Geological Conservation Review site,^[4] and overlaps two Special Area of Conservations.^[5][6] It is also part of a Ramsar Site^[7] and a Special Protection Area.^[8] Part of it is a Local Nature Reserve,^[9]

Thanet Coast

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Kent
Grid reference	TR 283 696[1]
Interest	Biological Geological
Area	816.9 hectares (2,019 acres)[1]
Notification	1990[1]
Location map	Magic Map

Designations
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Thanet Coast & Sandwich Bay
Designated	28 July 1994
Reference no.	664[2]

This site has unstable cliffs and foreshore, saltmarsh, lagoons, woodland and grassland. It has internationally important numbers of wintering birds and three nationally rare invertebrates. It is also an important Palaeocene site and paleobotanical locality.^[10]

Natural England divides the Site of Special Scientific Interest into units. The Church Commissioners own some of the land on which unit 10, unit 11 and unit 12 are situated^[11]