Stanground Wash is a 26 hectare nature reserve in
Stanground
Stanground is a residential area in the city of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes it comprises Stanground South and Fletton & Stanground wards in North West ...
, a suburb of
Peterborough in
Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the
Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
The site is sandwiched between the railway,
Ely-Peterborough line and Back River, a tributary of the
River Nene. It is grassland which is flooded in winter, providing a refuge for waterbirds, and is grazed in the summer. It has a variety of birds such as snipe, redshanks and sandpipers, and ditches with rare beetles.
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There is access by a footpath from North Street along the south bank of the river to a footbridge, but there is a locked gate 100 yards before the bridge.
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References
See also
*Stanground Newt Ponds
Stanground Newt Ponds is a nature reserve in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
This site has ponds and a wet meadow, with smooth and great crested newts. O ...
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Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire reserves
Geography of Peterborough