Wicken Fen

Wicken Fen is a monitoring station in Burwell, East Cambridgeshire, England. Wicken Fen is situated nearby to the nature reserve Burwell Fen, as well as near Wicken Poor’s Fen (open access).

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wicken Fen and Burwell Baptist Chapel.

Wicken Fen

Nature reserve

Photo: Dr Border, Public domain.

Wicken Fen is a 254.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. It is also a National Nature Reserve, and a Nature Conservation Review site.

Burwell Baptist Chapel

Church

Photo: Ajay Tegala, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Burwell Baptist Chapel is a church, which is situated 2 miles southeast of Wicken Fen.

Church of St Etheldreda and The Holy Trinity

Church

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Etheldreda and The Holy Trinity is situated 2 miles south of Wicken Fen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wicken and Reach.

Wicken is a village near Soham in East Cambridgeshire, England. The village is on the edge of The Fens, 10 miles north east of Cambridge and 5 miles south of Ely. It is the site of Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve.

Reach

Village

Photo: Ian Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Reach is a small village and civil parish on the edge of the fenland in East Cambridgeshire, England at the north end of Devil's Dyke, about 1.5 miles west of Burwell. Reach is situated 2 miles south of Wicken Fen.

Burwell

Village

Photo: Senra, CC BY 3.0.

Burwell is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, some 10 miles north-east of Cambridge. It lies on the south-east edge of the Fens. Westward drainage is improved by Cambridgeshire lodes, including Burwell Lode, a growth factor in the village. Burwell is situated 2 miles southeast of Wicken Fen.

Wicken Fen

Type: Monitoring station
Category: building
Location: Burwell, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.29856° or 52° 17′ 55″ north

Longitude

0.29095° or 0° 17′ 27″ east

Open location code

9F4277XR+C9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 592363899

OpenStreetMap feature

building=shed

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=monitoring_station

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