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Chessel Bay
Chessel Bay at low tide
Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Southampton, Hampshire
OS grid	SU 440 128
Area	12.9 hectares (32 acres)
Managed by	Southampton City Council

Chessel Bay is a 12.9-hectare (32-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the east bank of the River Itchen in Southampton in Hampshire. It is owned and managed by Southampton City Council. It is part of Solent and Southampton Water Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and of Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It has been a local nature reserve since 1989

It comprises a narrow strip of woodland, a parallel strip of shingle and saltmarsh and a substantial area of mudflats. At low tide the mudflats are exposed attracting wading birds and wildfowl: curlew, oystercatchers and dunlin can be seen throughout the year. In winter, the site is also used as a stop-over for other migrating birds such as brent geese.

At low tide, mudflats are exposed, and these attract feeding estuary birds. The mudflats are also nationally and internationally important. Local volunteers, Friends of Chessel Bay, team up with the City Council twice a year to combat the large amount of litter which accumulates in the bay, and carry out management of the Reserve. The reserve suffers from high levels of plastic pollution due to its position on the bend of Itchen.

References

1. "Chessel Bay". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
2. "Map of Chessel Bay". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
3. "Designated Sites View: Solent and Southampton Water". Ramsar Site. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
4. "Designated Sites View: Solent and Southampton Water". Special Protection Areas. Natural England. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
5. "Designated Sites View: Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
6. ^ "Clean up of nurdle-polluted Southampton Chessel Bay nature reserve". BBC NEws. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023. 

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v t e Hydrology of Hampshire
Main rivers main tributaries & sub-tributaries	River Loddon Blackwater River Whitewater River Hart Fleet Brook Cove Brook Bow Brook River Itchen River Alre Candover Brook Monks Brook River Test River Anton Blackwater Bourne Rivulet or Swift River Dever River Dun River Wey River Slea or Oxney Stream Oakhanger Stream Kingsley Stream All others Avon Water River Avon Bartley Water Beaulieu River Dark Water River Ems River Hamble Lymington River River Meon River Rother Tanner's Brook River Wallington
Canals and navigations	Andover Canal Basingstoke Canal Itchen Navigation Portsmouth and Arundel Canal Salisbury and Southampton Canal Titchfield Canal
Ordinary watercourses	Latchmore Brook Pillhill Brook West End Brook
Lakes, ponds and wetlands	Chessel Bay Eyeworth Pond Farlington Marshes Fleet Pond Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes Lakeside Country Park Manor Farm duck pond Sowley Pond Testwood Lakes Waggoners Wells
Coast	Chichester Harbour Langstone Harbour Portsmouth Harbour The Solent Southampton Water
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