It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

[1] The site is mainly grazing marshes, but there are also areas of rough grassland, saltmarsh, seawalls and reedbed.

Flowering plants include hairy buttercup, knotted hedge-parsley and the nationally rare least lettuce.

There are breeding birds such as Corn buntings and yellow wagtails.

[1] There is access by a footpath from Marsh Lane.