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 the lake Burwell Brick Pits.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
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″ northLongitude
0.29095° or 0° 17′ 27″ eastOpen location code
9F4277XR+C9OpenStreetMap ID
way 592363899OpenStreetMap feature
building=shedOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=monitoring_station
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