Mare Fen Explained

Mare Fen
Type:	Local Nature Reserve
Grid Ref Uk:	TL 366 698
Location:	Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, England
Area:	16.3 hectares
Manager:	Not known

Mare Fen is a 16.3 hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, England. It is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council,^{[1] [2]} and was formerly managed by the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Naturalists Trust (now part of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire),^[3] but as of December 2016 it is not listed on the Trust's web site.^[4] In 2015 Swavesey Parish Council expressed concern at the failure of the Environment Agency to carry out flood prevention works at Mare Fen.^[5]

This pasture in the floodplain of the River Great Ouse is used for grazing in the summer and allowed to flood in the winter. It has wildfowl such as mute swans, wigeons, teal and shovelers, mammals include badgers and muntjac deer. There are diverse aquatic plants.^[6]

There is access from Station Road.

References

1. Web site: Mare Fen . Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 21 February 2013 . 15 December 2016.
2. Web site: Map of Mare Fen. Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 15 December 2016.
3. Web site: Celebrating Sir David Attenborough at 90. 7 May 2016. [Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire].
4. Web site: Find a nature reserve. Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. 15 December 2016.
5. Web site: Response to the Environment Agency Produced Document Entitled: Briefing for Northstowe Joint Development Control Committee, 25th March 2015, Swavesey Drain Conveyance Improvements Project. Swavesey Parish Council. 15 December 2016.
6. Web site: Mare Fen. Cambridgeshire County Council. 15 December 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220172657/http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/directory_record/3216/mare_fen. 20 December 2016.

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