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Chichester Harbour is a large natural harbour in West Sussex and Hampshire. ... It is a large sand dune linked to land by a narrow area known as The Hinge. In recent ...
Noviomagus Reginorum was Chichester's Roman heart, very little of which survives above ground. It lay in the land of the Atrebates and is in the early medieval-founded English county of West Sussex. On the English Channel, Chichester Harbour, today eclipsed by Portsmouth Harbour, lies 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 kilometres) south.
It is part of the Chichester Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest [4] and Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I*, [5] the Chichester and Langstone Harbours Ramsar site [6] and Special Protection Area, [7] and the Solent Maritime Special Area of Conservation. [8] The island has sand dunes, mudflats, salt marsh and bare and vegetated ...
Pagham Harbour West Sussex is in south-east England and it has a population of approximately 780,000. The county town is Chichester. In the north of the county are the heavy clays and sands of the Weald. The chalk of the South Downs runs across the centre from east to west and in the south a coastal plain runs down to the English Channel. In England, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs ...
The harbour has diverse habitats, including intertidal mudflats, shingle, saltmarsh, sand dunes, marshes and woodland. The mudflats provide feeding grounds for internationally important numbers of ringed plovers , grey plovers , redshanks , black-tailed godwits , dunlins , sanderlings , curlews and greenshanks .
Nutborne Marshes is a 386.9-hectare (956-acre) Local Nature Reserve east of Thorney Island in West Sussex.It is owned and managed by Chichester Harbour Conservancy. [1] [2] It is part of the Chichester Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest [3] and Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I*, [4] the Chichester and Langstone Harbours Ramsar site [5] and Special Protection Area, [6] and the ...
A replacement lifeboat, along with its carriage, was sent to Chichester Harbour in 1873. The 32-foot lifeboat was slightly larger than the first lifeboat, and now rowed 10-oars, but was actually two years older, having previously served at Newquay since 1865. On arrival at Chichester Harbour, it again took the name Undaunted. [3] [9]
Every weekend during the main sailing season the Club holds points races for a range of dinghy, keelboat and cruiser classes, and combines with the other clubs in the harbour in the organising of Regattas and Chichester Harbour Race Week (Fed Week). Open winter and spring series are run for the dinghy and cruiser classes.