Geograph - photograph every grid square

This Area is used for education with small groups.

The Nene Wetlands is a one-square mile nature reserve made up of lakes and meadows on the site where gravel and sand was extracted from the Nene valley. Decades of extraction resulted in a series of pits which filled with water to form a series of lakes along the valley. Once the extraction was completed the area was left to nature with native trees growing up around the borders and wildlife taking over the landscape. The area is now a managed nature reserve and is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The complex of former gravel pits, grassland and scrub is important for several species of breeding birds, amphibians and invertebrates such as dragonflies and damselflies.