[1][2] The site has a variety of habitats, such as grassland, scrub, reedbed, fen, ponds and saltmarsh.

It was reclaimed in the seventeenth century, when Pitseahall Fleet was excavated to construct sea walls.

The Fleet has a large and varied bird population.

Dykes and ponds support the scarce emerald damselfly, and other rare invertebrates include Roesel's bush-cricket, a harvestman Leiobunum rotundum, a hoverfly xanthandrus comtus, and a ground beetle dyschirius impunctipennis.

[1] There is access to the country park from Pitsea Hall Lane.