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Mucking Flats and Marshes

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Mucking Flats and Marshes is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Essex, covering 3.1 km². It is one of 74 SSSIs in the county. It is among the largest in the county.

Nearby SSSIs include South Thames Estuary and Marshes and Cobham Woods. For arrivals by rail, East Tilbury Station is about 1.8 km to the west.

More places to visit near Mucking Flats and Marshes

Photo along the King Charles III England Coast Path, a 2,700-mile National Trail in England.

King Charles III England Coast Path

National Trail

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

0.6 km W · spans 24 counties

Photo along the Saxon Shore Way, a 160-mile long-distance path running from Gravesend to Hastings, south east England.

Saxon Shore Way

Long-distance path

Around Kent's Roman-era coastline from Gravesend to Hastings — a shore the sea has since abandoned for miles at a stretch.

2 km S · Kent & East Sussex

Photo of St Mary's, Higham, a church in Kent, south east England.Highlight

St Mary's, Higham

Church near Higham

Marshland church with a carved medieval oak screen, near the Gad's Hill home of Charles Dickens.

4.9 km S

Photo of Tilbury Fort, an artillery fort near Rochester, Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Tilbury Fort

Artillery fort near Rochester

Star-shaped 17th-century artillery fort on the Thames, England's best-preserved of its kind.

6.2 km SW

Photo of Milton Chantry, a ruined chapel near Rochester, Kent, south east England.

Milton Chantry

Chapel near Rochester

Chantry chapel of 1322 in Gravesend's Fort Gardens, the oldest building in the borough, later turned into an inn and then army barracks.

6.5 km SW

Photo of the Kent Downs, a National Landscape in Kent, south east England.Highlight

Kent Downs

National Landscape near Charing

Chalk hills, ancient woods and orchards, ending in the white cliffs above the Channel

8.2 km S