Barnwell East is a 2.6 hectare
Local Nature Reserve in
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
. It is owned and managed by
Cambridge City Council.
The site has woodland, a pond, scrub and grassland. Flora include
blackthorns,
hawthorns and
bee orchids, there are birds such as
blackcaps and
willow warbler
The willow warbler (''Phylloscopus trochilus'') is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and the Palearctic, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia. It is strongly ...
s, and
common blue
The common blue butterfly or European common blue (''Polyommatus icarus'') is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae and subfamily Polyommatinae. The butterfly is found throughout the Palearctic. Butterflies in the Polyommatinae are collectively c ...
and
meadow brown butterflies.
[
There is an entrance at the junction of Uphall Road and Nuttings Road.
]
See also
* Barnwell West
References
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Local Nature Reserves in Cambridgeshire