Sites of wildlife interest

SOUTH 11 to Trow Point

TROW POINT

4 River Don Saltmarsh

CHICHESTER

PEDESTRIAN/CYCLE TUNNEL 12 Trow Point to Lizard Point

1 Riverside MARSDEN

TYNE DOCK HEBBURN 7 Temple Park 3 Primrose Nature Reserve LIZARD BEDE POINT

10 Marsden Old Quarry

2 Monkton Fell

Great North 6 Newton Garths Forest BROCKLEY Key to all site maps WHINS on following pages BOLDON 9 Cleadon Hills Public paths/sculpture COLLIERY FELLGATE WHITBURN

Open space CLEADON

Restricted open space 6 Tilesheds Nature Reserve 5 Station Burn and Colliery Wood

Woodland Great North Forest WEST EAST BOLDON BOLDON Urban/industrial areas 13 Lizard Point to Whitburn 8 Boldon Flats Agricultural areas

Great Beach North Forest

Rocky shoreline 4 River Don Saltmarsh

RIVER TYNE Inter-tidal mudflat is one of the most biologically- productive START OF RIVER DON PATH habitats on earth, being matched only by tropical

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D still has a O N remnant of this precious resource, Inter-tidal Mud and it offers views Bede’s of the varied World wading birds that REDSHANK feed there. SEA ASTER As recently as the 1970s Jarrow Slake was the most important area of inter-tidal mudflat between Teesmouth and Holy Island. Since then 100 S River Don L CAR AK acres have been lost to landfill, but the remaining strip along the Don still E Saltmarsh TERMINAL R provides an important wildlife site. O A C D H U Just above the high tide line there is salt marsh vegetation with regionally R CH rare plants like sea spurrey, scurvy grass (so named because sailors used B ACCESS A N it as a source of vitamin C to combat disease) and sea aster, with its K There is a level dolomite/earth path showy daisy-like flower heads. alongside the site. Binoculars are essential to get a good view of the Most visitors however are attracted by the bird life that feeds at low tide St Paul’s birds without disturbing them. in the glistening mud which teems with marine molluscs, worms and Church The River Don Path starts here. crustaceans. Conspicuous is the redshank, or ‘sentinel of the marshes’, H T whose musical yelping cry acts as A P N a warning of approaching danger DO ER to other birds. Curlew, lapwing, RIV JARROW dunlin, ringed plover and BRIDGE sandpipers are also often seen, TRANSPORT together with teal, grey wagtail There is a regular bus service along and kingfisher further upstream. 200m Church Bank (nos 526 and 527).