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	Dr Julian Thompson: Research Projects: North Kent Marshes
		Significant advances in the understanding of the hydrological functioning of part of the North Kent Marshes the section of marshes associated with the proposed new crossing for the A249 onto the Isle of Sheppey) were provided by Hollis et al.
		The salinity within the channels and ditches of the marshes is of critical importance to the ecological character of the marshes.
		The ecological importance of the North Kent marshes is reflected in their designation as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Ramsar Sites under the Convention of Wetlands of International Importance and Special Protection Areas under the EEC Birds Directive (79/409).
	www.geog.ucl.ac.uk /~jthompso/north_kent_marshes.htm (840 words)

	North Kent Marshes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The north of Kent has historically been a marshland area, since before even the Roman invasion of 55 BC and that part which still survives, stretching from Whitstable to Dartford, has been subject to numerous international orders concerning scientific and natural regulations that recognise the area as the most important natural wetland in northern Europe.
		The North Kent Marsh with its stable water level is such an important area that it has been recognised as one of only thirteen key sites for the habitat of the water vole throughout Britain.
		Shorne and Higham marshes, with parts of Cliffe and Cooling marsh, Allhallows and Grain marshes and the Isle of Sheppey, are of particular regard for this endangered species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Kent_Marshes (414 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Articles - North Kent Marshes - a secret wilderness
		The North Kent Marshes is a complex area extending from Gravesend to Whitstable.
		And, despite industrialisation, large areas are wild and seldom explored.
		North Kent Marshes is under threat from a plan to build a four-runway airport twice the size of Heathrow at Cliffe.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/animals/features/298feature1.shtml (604 words)

	AIF 4.5 Thames Gateway Kent Partnership
		Creating a new environment in North Kent, and replacing the old perception with a new one focused on quality developments and quality environment, is a crucial aspect of the overall vision for North Kent.
		Another important aim is to raise the profile of the natural heritage of North Kent by establishing at least one flagship project that incorporates visitor and education/interpretation elements, and to bring together best national and international good practice in the whole range of environmental regeneration.
		It is important that the environmental strategy for North Kent fully involves local communities in the process of environmental enhancement by working with them to identifying local priorities, to implement projects, and to put in place sustainable management and maintenance arrangements owned and undertaken by community wherever possible.
	www.thamesgateway-kent.org.uk /aif/4.htm?pageid=4_5 (1672 words)

	Best Walks - Walking Kent
		Kent, known as "the garden of England", is a mixture of countryside, historic towns and coastal areas.
		Walking in Kent V2, Kev Reynolds - Forty routes reveal the essential charm of this diverse county - along the North Downs and the Greensand Ridge, in the valleys of the Eden and Medway, among the rich acres of the Weald, and the parklands and clifftops of eastern Kent.
		North Downs Way, Neil Curtis and Jim Walker - The North Downs Way is the National Trail that follows the Countryside Agency's acorn waymarks from Farnham to the coast at Dover.
	www.bestwalks.com /kentbooks.htm (1551 words)

	Kent and Medway Structure Plan
		Kent's natural environment is a prized asset which in some parts of the county is recognised as superb.
		Kent's countryside and coast are varied and have an intrinsic value of their own.
		Their many distinctive features include: the North Kent Marshes; the steep cliffs around Dover and Thanet; the scarp slopes of the North Downs; the intimate woodlands of the High Weald; the vast shingle beaches and open expanses of Romney Marsh; and the county's traditional patterns of streams, fields, hedgerows and orchards.
	www.kmsp.org.uk /chapter04.html (3933 words)

	SHYLOC: A method for calibrating hydrological models with remote sensing images - test sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		These are the North Kent Marshes and the Pevensey Levels in England and the former Lake Karla and Lake Mavrouda in Greece.
		The North Kent Marshes are located in South East England along the lower Thames estuary and on both sides of the Swale (a tidal channel which separates the Isle of Sheppey from the mainland).
		The ecological importance of the North Kent Marshes is reflected in their designation as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Ramsar Sites under the Convention on the Conservation of Wetlands of International Importance, and Special Protection Areas (SPA) under the EEC Birds Directive (79/409).
	intelligence.jrc.cec.eu.int /poplar/public/iain/shyloc/sites.html (1516 words)

	Kent Tourist Information on AboutBritain.com
		The County of Kent, situated at the south eastern tip of England, is often called the 'Garden of England'; with its hop fields, oast houses, orchards, sumptuous gardens and captivating countryside.
		Kent is the oldest place name in Britain, the county's history goes back to Roman times, not surprising then that Kent has many historic towns, more than the average amount of intriguing castles, beautiful stately homes and
		Romney Marsh is a unique expanse of flat, open countryside characterised by medieval churches and excellent rural pubs, it has been a smugglers' haunt for generations.
	www.aboutbritain.com /counties/kent.asp (755 words)

	AIF 3.3 Thames Gateway Kent Partnership
		Kent Thameside is seen in the 'Zones of Change' vision as one of the two major development nodes in the Thames Gateway as a whole.
		Kent Thameside's successful development is a key to the Government's aspirations for Thames Gateway as a whole.
		North West Kent College and the University of Greenwich are working on a range of proposals to maintain a significant HE presence at the North Dartford site.
	www.thamesgateway-kent.org.uk /aif/3.htm?pageid=3_3 (2887 words)

	Kentish Fare - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Despite being in a crowded corner of southeast England, Kent's sheer variety of wildlife habitats is astonishing.
		Kent holds a stunning one quarter of all the grazing marshes on England - the stuff for breeding lapwings and redshanks, and for roosting flocks of wading birds in winter.
		The ditches of the north Kent marshes and of Romney marshes are purely artificial creations by farmers who found a ditch was a convenient form of wet fence to contain livestock.
	www.kentishfare.co.uk /kfare/news-items/archive/wildlife.htm (786 words)

	Northward Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The success of this work is evidenced by the return of breeding species like lapwing, redshank, avocet and marsh harrier; and the increase in wintering waterfowl like wigeon and teal.
		Ideal conditions on the marsh have produced peak counts of over 4000 waterfowl - a far cry from the counts of a decade ago when wigeon were recorded in single figures and 200 teal was a notable count!
		159 ha of neglected marsh bought from the MoD in July 2000 with the aid of grants from Bretts Aggregates and Kent County Council, Shorne is in the process of being re-established as an integral part of the North Kent Marshes area of coastal grazing marsh.
	www.kentos.org.uk /northkentmarshes/NorthwardHill.htm (948 words)

	Volunteering
		On the North Kent Marshes, this means that we get the job done, but also we have a great team of advocates, spreading the word about our work.
		I was given an explanation as to the objectives of the reserve, which basically are to maintain it as a grazing marsh.
		I have found volunteering challenging, having to learn new skills such as hanging gates and putting up fences, whilst at the same time acquiring knowledge about birds, mammals, insects and plants, some of which is passed on from the other volunteers and some from the warden or assistant warden.
	www.medway-rspb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /volunteering_in_nw_kent.htm (973 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Kent \| Marshland wildlife 'flourishing'
		Wildlife on the north Kent marshes is flourishing because of partnerships between the government and farmers, environmental experts have said.
		The marshes are in the Environmentally Sensitive Areas scheme (ESA) and are important for various bird types.
		The North Kent Marshes ESA forms an almost continuous coastal marshland fringe extending from Whitstable in the east to Gravesend in the west, including the Medway Estuary and the Isle of Sheppey.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/kent/3487280.stm (260 words)

	Defra UK; ERDP - Schemes - ESAs - North Kent Marshes ESA
		The marshes are typically two to five kilometres wide but they broaden on the Hoo peninsula and is bounded on the southern side of the Isle of Sheppy.
		The marshes are a distinctive, exposed, flat landscape of pasture and arable land.
		The second option requires agreement holders to increase the area of grazing marsh by reverting arable land to extensively managed grassland or to protect the nature conservation interest of the ditches and water courses by establishing grass buffer strips on arable fields.
	www.defra.gov.uk /erdp/schemes/esas/stage3/northkentmarshes.htm (517 words)

	Kent \| Kent Breaks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Kent’s stretching coastline of beaches, coves and historic maritime towns have always been enticing to visitors and its easy to understand why.
		Base yourself in Faversham and you will see that Faversham is one of the most charming and historic small towns in southern England, nestling between the rural beauty of the Downs and the sweeping flatlands of the north Kent marshes.
		It was built in the 16th century to protect as a gun fort on the orders of Elizabeth 1 to defend her warships at anchor in the reaches of the Medway and the Dockyard at Chatham.
	www.kenttourism.co.uk /en/inclusive_breaks/itinerary_coastal.asp (473 words)

	Charles Dickens Fellowship Kent Connections
		He first came to Kent when he was five years old and the love of the nation's ' Garden of England ' remained with him throughout his sucessful life.
		Striding off alone across the marshes to Cravesend, Dickens always stopped on his return to raise his hat and greet the comical old gargoyle the remains of which can be seen above the entrance porch of Chalk Church.
		A little distance outside Rochester on the North Kent Coastline, where moored prison hulks incarcerated prisoners in their hulls, is a wild and open area that Dickens described as "raw" and "savage".
	members.tripod.com /~DickensFellowshipCD/kenconchalk.htm (2632 words)

	BirdForum - Shooting Wildfowl In The North Kent Marshes
		Kent Wildfowlers own the vast majority of the shooting rights on the North Kent Marshes, the rest is privately owned.
		The scabby bits of woodland will be felled, marshes drained, hedges ripped out, rough grassland ploughed and no game crops, I could go on for ever about the benefits to wildlife that will be lost.
		Without this work it is doubtful that the marsh habitats would be as inviting or clean as they are at the moment.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=3164 (3341 words)

	EandRBios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He is particularly interested in seeing the rarer species in the World whilst back at home he concentrates on birding the North Kent marshes although he has spent long spells at Reculver, Swalecliffe, Dungeness and Bockhill in the past.
		As a newcomer to Kent in 1964, he soon became involved with the KOS, supporting the important role the society plays in collecting bird records.
		His first bird-watching expedition was to the North Kent Marshes when he was 12 and he’s been birding ever since.
	www.kentos.org.uk /eandr/EandRBios.htm (1030 words)

	Kent Birding Breaks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Kent has long been known as one of the prime counties for bird watching.
		A little further afield are areas such as Dungeness which is an internationally famous gravel peninsula where the large RSPB reserve holds spectacular numbers of terns, gulls, waders and migrants of all sorts.
		The hostelry is situated in the pretty little village of Worth just one and a half miles from the historic town of Sandwich and three miles north of the bustling town of Deal.
	www.sandwichbirdtours.co.uk /kentbirdingbreaks.htm (978 words)

	North Kent
		Some 300,000 water birds use the North Kent Marshes each year, an international airport for birds moving between places as far apart as South Africa and the Arctic.
		Almost immediately the RSPB and local community found themselves fighting the threat of an airport on this area and thanks to a huge national campaign with local support, the threat was defeated in 2004.
		North Kent has huge areas of damp marshland and tidal mud.
	www.medway-rspb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /nw_kent.htm (1508 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		We are a group of amateur ornithologists, ringing (banding) wild birds in the counties of Kent and Surrey in the southeast of the United Kingdom.
		Kent Ornithological SocietyDr Grant Hazlehurst, PO Box 1211London NW1 1AE 020 8650 7063 - Kent is ornithologically one of the most exciting counties in Britain.
		Habitats as diverse as salt and grazing marshes, extensive reed beds, ancient Wealden woodland, open downland and fertile river valleys are reflected in an equally diverse bird population.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/europe/england_kent.html (7430 words)

	Conserv@tion - daily wildlife news from the British Isles
		A third runway at Heathrow and a new four—runway airport near the River Thames in north Kent were confirmed today as options for a major expansion of UK airport capacity.
		It is hardly surprising that the north Kent marshes have been earmarked as a potential site for a new airport.
		The North Wales mountain is dominated by a purple moor grass which isn't eaten by sheep and turns orange when it dies in the autumn.
	www.users.dialstart.net /~dbrear/230702.htm (1265 words)

	Home Page
		The North Kent Marshes stretch from Dartford in the west to Whitstable in the east and include the Hoo Peninsula, the Medway, the Swale and Sheppey.
		The Friends of North Kent Marshes is a voluntary group, formed in 2004 out of the No airport at Cliffe Campaign Liaison Group.
		The more widely the North Kent Marshes is known and appreciated, the safer they will be.
	www.northkentmarshes.org.uk (276 words)

	country stat
		The first action under this outcome should be to include all the marshes on the Hoo Peninsula, not just those with a wildlife designation as noted on the maps included with the Strategy.
		Therefore, we suggest that the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) is used to denote the area of marshes that should be protected through this objective.
		Water voles are still found amongst the ditches of the grazing marsh, but have nationally experienced a 95% decrease in distribution in the last 20 years.
	recruitmentwarehouse.co.uk /northkentmarshes/country_stat.htm (1164 words)

	Parish church \| St Leonard, Badlesmere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The land between the North Downs and the north Kent marshes was once wealthy through agriculture and country estates grew as hubs of thriving communities.
		One such was Badlesmere which gave its name to a family whose peak of power occurred in the early fourteenth century.
		Indeed it should do, for as the north Kent corridor gets ever covered with concrete, it is little pockets like this bring us closer to our ancestors.
	www.kentchurches.info /parish.asp?p=Badlesmere (221 words)

	Faversham, Kent.
		Kent Pages is a comprehensive local directory for Kent.
		If you run a website that covers "Faversham, Kent" and are based in Kent you can submit your details for free in our Faversham, Kent section.
		The Faversham area stretching from the beauty of the Kent Downs to the flatlands of the north Kent marshes has an abundance of wildlife, plants and wild places.
	www.kent-pages.co.uk /Kent/Faversham/more5.html (268 words)

	Water Vole Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		However no extensive monitoring and surveying had been carried out in Kent in a way that provided the Environment Agency with a holistic view of the species status in Kent.
		As a result a water vole survey for North Kent Marshes, recognised as likely to support a large population, was carried out.
		The results show that the North Kent Marshes are a very important stronghold for water vole populations, however the present status cannot be secured without pro-active management and conservation measures in place.
	www.medway-swale.org.uk /pages/vole.htm (131 words)

	Kent Thameside
		The concept of a 'Thames-Medway Regional Park' is recognised as a priority project for Thames Gateway Kent.
		At its core, the regional park concept is an approach to the positive management of the countryside that embraces community and economic as well as physical and environmental issues.
		In Kent Thameside the areas of current focus include: the exceptional countryside area between Gravesend and the Medway Towns, which also encompasses part of the Kent Downs Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty (AONB); the North Kent Marshes and the arable belt between these areas; and the Stone and Darenth Wood area.
	www.kt-s.co.uk /kts02/pages/KTSPG_001.asp?page=70 (97 words)

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