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The Hayle Estuary is an estuary
Estuary

An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....
 in west Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

The estuary of the River Hayle
River Hayle

The River Hayle is a small river in west Cornwall, UK which issues into St Ives Bay at Hayle on Cornwall's Atlantic Ocean coast.The River Hayle is approx 12 miles long and it rises south-west of Crowan village....
 consists of a main channel, with several other nearby tidal areas, including Lelant Saltings, Copperhouse Creek and Carnsew Pool (also known as Carnsew Basin).

It is included in the Hayle Estuary and Carrack Gladden
Hayle Estuary and Carrack Gladden SSSI

The Hayle Estuary and Carrack Gladden SSSI is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall.It consists of three distinct parts, each of which is covered in a separate article:...
 Site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Res...
.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a United Kingdom charitable organisation which works to promote bird conservation and protection of birds and the wider Natural environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom....
 manage a nature reserve
Nature reserve

A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora , fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for Conservation ethic and to provide special opportunities for study or research....
 at the site.








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The Hayle Estuary is an estuary
Estuary

An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....
 in west Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

The estuary of the River Hayle
River Hayle

The River Hayle is a small river in west Cornwall, UK which issues into St Ives Bay at Hayle on Cornwall's Atlantic Ocean coast.The River Hayle is approx 12 miles long and it rises south-west of Crowan village....
 consists of a main channel, with several other nearby tidal areas, including Lelant Saltings, Copperhouse Creek and Carnsew Pool (also known as Carnsew Basin).

It is included in the Hayle Estuary and Carrack Gladden
Hayle Estuary and Carrack Gladden SSSI

The Hayle Estuary and Carrack Gladden SSSI is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall.It consists of three distinct parts, each of which is covered in a separate article:...
 Site of Special Scientific Interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Res...
.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a United Kingdom charitable organisation which works to promote bird conservation and protection of birds and the wider Natural environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom....
 manage a nature reserve
Nature reserve

A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora , fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for Conservation ethic and to provide special opportunities for study or research....
 at the site.

See also

  • Hayle
    Hayle

    Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
  • St Ives Bay
    St Ives Bay

    St Ives Bay is a bay on the Atlantic coast of north-west Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It is in the form of a shallow crescent, some 4 miles or 6 km across, between St Ives, Cornwall in the west and Godrevy in the east....