Kintbury Newt Ponds

Kintbury Newt Ponds is a 3-hectare nature reserve in Kintbury in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. The reserve is made up of several ponds, reedbed, scrub and grassland.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kintbury railway station and Irish Hill Copse.

Kintbury railway station

Railway station

Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kintbury railway station serves the village of Kintbury in Berkshire, England. It is situated on the Reading to Taunton Line, 58 miles 38 chains from London Paddington.

Irish Hill Copse

Forest

Irish Hill Copse is a 15.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Kintbury in Berkshire. This site of coppiced ancient woodland includes an extensive area of calcareous ash/wych elm coppice on the hill sides, merging into wet ash/maple and acid oak/ash/hazel woodland with aspen, on the higher parts of the site.

Dreweatt’s Lock

Lock

Dreweatt's Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Kintbury and Newbury, Berkshire, England. The lock has a rise/fall of 5 ft 9 in. It is a grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hungerford and Kintbury.

Hungerford

Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, 8 miles west of Newbury, 9 miles east of Marlborough, and 60 miles west of London.

Kintbury

Village

Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kintbury is a village and civil parish in the West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England, between the towns of Newbury and Hungerford. The village has a convenient railway to Paddington and Reading, proximity to other transport and local cultural…