Fowlmere RSPB reserve

Fowlmere is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve between Fowlmere and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire. It is designated a 39.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest called Fowlmere Watercress Beds.

Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Nature reserve
Description: RSPB nature reserve in the United Kingdom
Also known as: “RSPB Fowlmere Nature Reserve”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Meldreth railway station and Shepreth railway station.

Meldreth railway station

Railway station

Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Meldreth railway station serves the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 47 miles 75 chains from London King's Cross on the Cambridge Line.

Shepreth railway station

Railway station

Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shepreth railway station serves the village of Shepreth in Cambridgeshire, England. The station is on the Cambridge Line, 49 miles 67 chains from London King's Cross.

Melwood Local Nature Reserve

Park

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Melwood is a 0.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Meldreth in Cambridgeshire, England. It is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council and managed by the Melwood Conservation Group.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melbourn and Meldreth.

Melbourn

Village

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Melbourn is a large, clustered village in the far south-west of Cambridgeshire, England. Its traditional high street is bypassed by the A10, intersecting the settlement's other main axis exactly 3 miles northwest of the traditional focal point of Royston, Hertfordshire, the nearest larger settlement.

Meldreth

Village

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Meldreth is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, located around 10 miles south-west of Cambridge. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 1,783.