The Harrold-Odell Country Park is a 59.3 hectare Country park and Local Nature Reserve between the villages of Odell and Harrold in Bedfordshire. It is owned and managed by Bedford Borough Council, and it has a cafe, toilets and an information room.[1] [2]
The area has been settled since at least the 3rd century, and there was a Roman farmstead at what is now the Grebe Lake. [3] A nearby landmark is the former Saint Nicholas church at Chellington, which was deconsecrated in 1975 and can be seen from across the lake. [4]
The site was formerly a sand and gravel quarry, and was converted to a park in the 1980s.[5] It is bordered on its southern and eastern side by the River Great Ouse. It has two lakes, water meadows and woodland, some of which is seasonally flooded. There is a wide variety of birds, and mammals include otters, shrews and bats.[1]
There is access from Carlton Road.