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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 ]
Windmill World: Wicken Adventurer's Fen Smock: 1908: Moved to Wicken Fen 1956 Wicken Spinney Bank Mill: Smock: 1920s Wicken Fen: Wicken Fen Windpump: Smock: 1956:
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 is a small village on the edge of The Fens near Soham in East Cambridgeshire, ten miles north east of Cambridge and five miles south of Ely. It is the site of Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve .
A windpump at Wicken Fen. The Fens are very low-lying compared with the chalk and limestone uplands that surround them – in most places no more than 10 metres (33 ft) above sea level. As a result of drainage and the subsequent shrinkage of the peat fens, many parts of the Fens now lie below mean sea level.
A 1996 search along the Anglian Water pipeline at Little Thetford—Cawdle Fen uncovered an important and unusually dense concentration of late Neolithic (3000–2201 BC) remains. [4] This is unusual because, although the fenland basin was dry and forested during the Mesolithic era, the area was sometimes subject to marine incursions, and at ...
Hundreds of people flocked to Upware, near Wicken, Cambridgeshire, over the weekend. Fen skating takes place when a meadow floods and then freezes, meaning the ice is very shallow - unlike with ...