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Wicken Fen is a 254.5-hectare (629-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It is also a National Nature Reserve , [ 4 ] and a Nature Conservation Review site. [ 5 ]
Approximately 17 miles (27 km) north-east of Cambridge is Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, where walkers will pass through the remains of a fragment of a Fenland wilderness of former times. Wicken Fen was the first nature reserve to be owned by the National Trust and has been in its care since 1899. Wicken Fen is a haven for birds, plants ...
A pair of common cranes which have nested at the East Anglian nature reserve since 2019 have successfully reared their first chick to fledging there.
Wicken was listed as Wicha in the Domesday Book [4] and Wiken in around 1200. [5] The name comes from an Old-English dative plural wícum meaning "the dwellings" or "the trading settlement". [6] Wicken also has the last twelve-sided smock mill still working in England, having been restored to full working order by a team of volunteers. The mill ...
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Pinchbeck Engine, a museum of fen drainage based around the longest-working beam engine and scoopwheel; Somerset Levels, a similar area of wetlands in the southwest of England; Wicken Fen, one of the few remaining undrained fens, owned by the National Trust; Fen, a British post-metal band; Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire, a long straight ditch and ...
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