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Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ
2011
Unmanaged realignment
United Kingdom
Leven Estuary (Cumbria)
-3.0271912
54.195424
Mudflat
Saltmarsh
23 Hectares
Other
Barker Scar is sheltered within the upper Leven estuary in Morecambe Bay, a macro-tidal estuary in the northwest of England. Previously an embankment provided flood protection to the reclaimed land behind. It is likely that the integrity of the estuary facing embankment continuously weakened before failure, inundating grazing land behind. From observations, the front face of the wall has continued to erode, while a tidal channel to the south of the site has widened. This has created 23 ha of upper saltmarsh and transitional grassland. It is adjacent on its western boundary to the Morecambe Bay SSSI.
ABPmer
Quayside Suite
Medina Chambers
Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ