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Wicken Fen

Wicken Fen

One of Europe's most important wetlands and England's most famous Fen which supports an abundance of wildlife. There are more than 9,000 species, including a spectacular array of plants, birds and dragonflies.

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Great Fen

Great Fen

The Great Fen, a 50-year project to create a huge wetland area. One of the largest restoration projects of its type in Europe, the landscape of the fens between Peterborough and Huntingdon is being transformed for the benefit both of wildlife and of people.

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Lakenheath RSPB reserve

Lakenheath RSPB reserve

An area of arable farmland into a large wetland, consisting mainly of reedbeds and grazing marshes. The new reedbeds have attracted hundreds of pairs of reed warblers and sedge warblers, as well as bearded tits and marsh harriers.

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Welney Wildfowl Centre

Welney Wildfowl Centre

Welney, in Norfolk, takes in 1,000 acres of the northernmost part of the Ouse Washes – Britain’s largest area of seasonally-flooded land and the setting for one of the most magical events in the UK’s nature calendar - mass winter gatherings of many thousands of wild ducks, geese and swans.

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Baston Fen

Baston Fen

Baston fen is a long tract of permanent pasture, which is flooded in winter and attracts large numbers of wildfowl

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Chippenham Fen

Chippenham Fen

Chippenham Fen covers 117 Ha and is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Ramsar site

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RSPB Ouse Washes

RSPB Ouse Washes

In the heart of the Fens, the Ouse Washes forms the largest area of washland in the UK.

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Willow Tree Fen

Willow Tree Fen

Willow Tree Fen has been transformed from arable land growing beans and cereal to more traditional fenland landscape of shallow meres, seasonally flooded pastures, hay meadows and reedbeds.

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Thurlby Fen Slipe

Thurlby Fen Slipe

Old flooded borrow-pits, reed beds, scrub, grassland and meadows

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