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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 ]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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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