Stanground Wash

Stanground Wash is a 26 hectare nature reserve in Stanground, a suburb of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.[1]

Stanground Wash
Type	Nature reserve
Location	Stanground, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
OS grid	TL 208 975
Area	26 hectares
Managed by	Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

The site is sandwiched between the railway, Ely-Peterborough line and Back River, a tributary of the River Nene. It is grassland which is flooded in winter, providing a refuge for waterbirds, and is grazed in the summer. It has a variety of birds such as snipe, redshanks and sandpipers, and ditches with rare beetles.[1]

There is access by a footpath from North Street along the south bank of the river to a footbridge, but there is a locked gate 100 yards before the bridge.

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