An area of improved grazing marsh located to the north west of the Strood Causeway onto Mersea Island, at the end of Ray Channel. The area is bounded to the south east by the current sea wall and widened borrow dyke, to the north and west by sinuous ditches along former creeks and to the east by modern housing and a road. A high concentration of red hills is recorded in adjacent areas and one red hill is recorded within the area of marsh itself.<1>