Cambourne Nature Reserve
Cambridgeshire
A wonderful mix of wildflower meadows, wetlands full of wildfowl and woodlands harbouring rare and special species, all interwoven around a new settlement outside Cambridge.
Nature Reserves
Sarah Lambert
Due to the heavy rainfall experienced recently across Beds, Cambs and Northants please be careful when visiting our nature reserves. Make sure you are wearing appropriate footwear and stick to footpaths were possible.
The majority of our nature reserves remain open with free access and we are delighted that support from our members enables us to offer this.
To ensure nature is still there for us in the future as well as right now please keep dogs on leads and follow our Reserve Access Guidelines and the Countryside Code. We reserve the right to close areas off quickly if we think there is an unmanageable risk to safety or wildlife. Please check individual reserve pages and our reserve updates map for updates. We are grateful for your understanding.
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Cople Pits
Water-filled former gravel diggings, now a series of secluded shady pools
Ditchford Lakes and Meadows (Nene Wetlands)
This link will open on the Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants website.
An important reserve for breeding and winter birds, with frequent visits from otters
Doghouse Grove
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Once fishing ponds for monks, now a secluded spinney
Dogsthorpe Star Pit
Peterborough
Former old clay pits are now a wildlife haven, rich in invertebrate and bird life
Five Arches Pit
Huntingdon
Open water, reedbeds and willows in a fenland habitat that was once a quarry
Godmanchester Nature Reserve
A rich mixture of flooded gravel pits, grassland, reedbed and willows
Grafham Water
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Wildflower meadows, ancient woodlands and wetland areas full of birdlife.
Great Fen
The Great Fen is a landscape project to connect the two national nature reserves of Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen by restoring the surrounding land for wildlife.
Higham Ferrers Pits (Nene Wetlands)
This link will open on the Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants website.
Once part of a large gravel pit complex, now rich in birds and dragonflies