Godmanchester Nature Reserve

Nature reserve in Cambridgeshire, England

Godmanchester Nature Reserve


Type	Nature reserve
Location	Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, England
OS grid	TL258717
Area	59 hectares
Managed by	Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Godmanchester Nature Reserve is a 59-hectare nature reserve in Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, England. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[1]

The site has four former gravel pits which are now lakes, together with areas of grassland, willow woodland and reedbeds. Birds include wigeons, tufted ducks, teals and great crested grebes, and there are insects such as dragonflies and butterflies.^[1]

There is access to Island Lake and Roman Lake, but not to Peter Prince Memorial and Teddy's Lake. The Ouse Valley Way runs along the western edge.

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References

^ ^a ^b "Godmanchester Nature Reserve". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 13 September 2016.

Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Bedfordshire

Bedford	Begwary Brook Cople Pits Felmersham Gravel Pits Pavenham Osier Beds Sewell Cutting Sharnbrook Summit Wymington Meadow
Central Bedfordshire	Arlesey Old Moat and Glebe Meadows Barton Gravel Pit Blow's Downs Cooper's Hill Cut-throat Meadow Dropshort Marsh Fancott Woods and Meadows Flitwick Moor King's Wood and Rammamere Heath Lancot Meadow Landpark Wood Old Warden Tunnel Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit The Riddy Sallowsprings Totternhoe

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge	Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits Skaters' Meadow
East Cambridgeshire	Chettisham Meadow Doghouse Grove Fordham Woods Ouse Washes Soham Meadow
Fenland	Lattersey Norwood Road
Huntingdonshire	Arthur's Meadow Brampton Wood Gamsey Wood Godmanchester Grafham Water Great Fen Houghton Meadows Lady's Wood Pingle Cutting Raveley Wood Shepherd's Close Upwood Meadows Waresley and Gransden Woods Wistow Wood Woodwalton Marsh
Peterborough	Dogsthorpe Star Pit Southorpe Meadow Southorpe Paddock Stanground Newt Ponds Stanground Wash Thorpe Wood Wansford Pasture & Standen's Pasture Woodston Ponds
South Cambridgeshire	Beechwoods Buff Wood Cambourne Fulbourn Fen Gamlingay Cinques Gamlingay Wood Hardwick Wood Hayley Wood Lower Wood Overhall Grove Shepreth L Moor Trumpington Meadows

Northamptonshire

North Northamptonshire	Barford Wood and Meadows Collyweston Quarries Ditchford Lakes and Meadows Finedon Cally Banks Glapthorn Cow Pastures Great Oakley Meadow Higham Ferrers Pits Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows King's Wood Old Sulehay The Plens Rothwell Gullet Short Wood and Southwick Wood Southfield Farm Marsh Stoke Wood End Quarter Summer Leys Tailby Meadow Titchmarsh Wicksteed Park Wilson's Pits
West Northamptonshire	Abington Meadows Barnes Meadow Boddington Meadow Bradlaugh Fields Bugbrooke Meadow Duston Mill Meadow Farthinghoe Grafton Regis Meadow Harlestone Heath High Wood and Meadow Kingsthorpe Meadow Lings Mill Crook Pitsford Water Nature Reserve Ramsden Corner Stoke Bruerne Brick Pits Storton's Pits Woodford Halse

North Northamptonshire