Eye Green Local Nature Reserve Explained

Eye Green
Type:	Local Nature Reserve
Grid Ref Uk:	TF 230 034
Location:	Eye Green, Cambridgeshire
Area:	12 hectares
Manager:	Peterborough City Council

Eye Green Local Nature Reserve is a 12 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Eye Green in Cambridgeshire.^{[1] [2]} It was managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire until September 2016, when management was transferred to its owner, Peterborough City Council.^[3] A small (and inaccessible) part is also in the Eye Gravel Pit geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.^[4]

This site was formerly brick workings, and a large area is now filled by a lake. Reeds and scrub line much of the shore, providing cover for water birds such coots and moorhens, while dunnocks and great tits nest in dense scrub. There is grassland with many flowers, and diverse invertebrate species.^[1]

There is access from Pershore Way.

See also

• Dogsthorpe Star Pit

52.615°N -0.183°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eye Green. Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 20 February 2013 . 9 October 2016.
2. Web site: Map of Eye Green. Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 9 October 2016.
3. Web site: Eye Green Brick Pit. Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. 8 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160608143726/http://www.wildlifebcn.org/reserves/eye-green-brick-pit. 8 June 2016.
4. Web site: Designated Sites View: Eye Gravel Pit . Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. 9 October 2016.