Gamsey Wood is a 4 hectare nature reserve north-east of
Woodwalton
Wood Walton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Wood Walton lies approximately north of Huntingdon and just east of the A1. Wood Walton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshir ...
in
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...
. It is managed by the
Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
The main trees in this wood are ash and
field maple, but there are also several
wild service tree
''Sorbus torminalis'', with common names wild service tree, chequers, and checker tree, is a species of tree in the mountain ash or rowan genus (''Sorbus'') of the rose family (Rosaceae), that is native to Europe, parts of northern Africa and we ...
s. Spring flowers include
bluebells,
wood anemones and
yellow archangels, and there are birds such as
fieldfares
The fieldfare (''Turdus pilaris'') is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in woodland and scrub in northern Europe and across the Palearctic. It is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It ...
and
nightingales.
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There is access from Raveley Road by a track through Keeler farm to the reserve entrance at the north-east corner of the site.
]
References
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Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire reserves