Gibraltar Point
National Nature Reserve is an area of some 430 hectares comprising sandy and
muddy seashores, sand- dunes, saltmarshes and freshwater habitats extending for a distance of
about 3 miles along the Lincolnshire coast, from the southern end of Skegness to the entrance
of the Wash. The Reserve is managed by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust under a lease from its
owners the Lincolnshire County Council and East Lindsey District Council.
The primary function
of the Reserve, which is recognised as an area of international scientific
interest, is to conserve this unspoilt stretch of coastline and its important communities of plants
and animals. Within the Reserve is the most extensive complex of sand- dunes and saltmarshes
in Lincolnshire.
These web pages have been produced from an early provisional management plan
for the reserve
(circa 2000) which made available as an educational resource and in which the management
objectives and action plans for pasture and woodland were not included.
