Stour Estuary, Stour Estuary RSPB reserve

Name: Stour Estuary
Address: Stour Estuary RSPB reserve, United Kingdom

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Stour Estuary is a 2,523 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches from Manningtree to Harwich in Essex and Suffolk. It is also an internationally important wetland Ramsar site, a Special Protection Area and a Nature Conservation Review site. It is part of the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and there are Geological Conservation Review sites in Wrabness, Stutton, and Harwich Part of the site is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and a small area is Wrabness Nature Reserve, a Local Nature Reserve managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. ()

Coordinates: 51°57'14"N, 1°10'26"E

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Stour Estuary – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: High Lighthouse, Electric Palace Cinema, Mistley Towers, Ganges Wood.

4.9 miE
Lighthouse
High Lighthouse, Harwich
126 min walk • Harwich High and Low Lighthouses are a pair of early 19th-century towers in Harwich, Essex, which were built as leading lights to help guide vessels into the harbour. They replaced an earlier pair of lights established in the seventeenth century when Harwich was a key operational base for the Royal Navy.
4.9 miE
Nightlife, Concerts and shows, Cinema
Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich
126 min walk • The Electric Palace cinema, Harwich, is one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its silent screen, original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact. It was designed by the architect Harold Ridley Hooper of Ipswich, Suffolk and opened on 29 November 1911.
4.1 miW
Classes and workshops, Church, Georgian architecture
Mistley Towers, Mistley
106 min walk • Mistley Towers are the twin towers of the now demolished Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Mistley in Essex. The original Georgian parish church on the site had been built in classical style early in the 18th century following the death of Richard Rigby Esquire.
3.9 miE
Forest
Ganges Wood, Harwich
99 min walk • Ganges Wood is a woodland in Suffolk, England, near the village of Shotley Gate. It covers a total area of 2.21 hectares. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.
1.2 miSW
Cemetery
Oakfield Wood
30 min walk • Oakfield Wood is a 2.8 hectare nature reserve west of Wrabness in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This is former farmland which is being converted into a "green burial ground", overlooking the Stour Estuary.
4.1 miN
Tower
Freston Tower
104 min walk • Freston Tower is a six-storey red brick folly south of Ipswich, Suffolk in the village of Freston. It stands on the banks of the River Orwell.
5 miE
Park
Trimley Marshes, Felixstowe
127 min walk • Trimley Marshes is a 77 hectare nature reserve west of Trimley St Mary, on the outskirts of Felixstowe in Suffolk. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
1.6 miSE
Park
Copperas Wood
41 min walk • Copperas Wood is a 13.8 hectare nature reserve between Ramsey and Wrabness in Essex. It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust, and is part of the Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey Site of Special Scientific Interest.
1.6 miNW
Museum
Royal Hospital School, Ipswich
42 min walk • The Royal Hospital School is a British co-educational independent day and boarding school with naval traditions. The school admits pupils from age 11 to 18 through Common Entrance or the school's own exam. The school is regulated by Acts of Parliament.
2.4 miSE
Windmill
Ramsey Windmill
62 min walk • Ramsey Windmill is a grade II* listed post mill at Ramsey, Essex, England which has been restored.
1.6 miSW
Park
Wrabness Nature Reserve
41 min walk • Wrabness Nature Reserve is a 27 hectare Local Nature Reserve on the south bank of the River Stour, west of Wrabness in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This site has grassland, marsh, scrub and woodland.