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College Lake Nature Reserve, near Tring

College Lake is a large nature reserve with a very wide variety of habitats created from a large chalk pit. There is a large area of marsh with islands, and a deep water lake, while the cliffs surrounding the pit are in various stages of being "recovered" by nature. There is open meadow land and an area kept as an old fashioned cornfield full of flowers. There is woodland all round the area (originally planted to hide the quarry) and a large new woodland of native trees and shrubs. This all means that whatever time of the year you visit you can expect to see a wide variety of wildlife.

There are good facilities for the visitor (and for school parties), including many hides, and displays of old agricultural equipment. It is run by the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust. LinkExternal link
by Chris Reynolds

Created: Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Updated: Sun, 12 Oct 2014


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SP9313 : Three Iron Birds come from the bushes at College Lakes by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : Toadstools at College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : The Xmas Tree in the Visitor Centre, College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : College Lake: Looking across the Main Lake from the West Bank by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : Bracket Fungus on a tree killed by rising water in College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : Everything looks different on a day like this at College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : College Lake: Looking along the East Bank with Drowned Track by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : A Flooded Willow Tree by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : The snow-covered path from the car park at College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9214 : The Quarry Ring Road West of the Tump, College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : A Surprise on a track through Elder Wood by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : Hawthorn twigs dripping with water in the fog at College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : Site for New Visitor Centre, College Lake (March 2009) by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : Fungi at College Lake, near Tring by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : The Waterside Seat on The Twist (February 2013) by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : View towards The Twist from Marsworth Hide, College Lake, near Tring by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : Graham Atkins approaching the College Lake Visitors Centre by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : Pheasants Eye in Cornfield at College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : Visitors Centre and Hide, College Lake, near Tring by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : The Fitter Hide, College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : Part of the Circular Walk round College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : An ammonite and the Visitor Centre at College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : A new art work ??? at College Lake by Chris Reynolds
SP9313 : The Information/Admissions Hut at College Lake in 2009 by Chris Reynolds
SP9314 : The "Wildlife Hotel" in the Wildlife Garden at College Lake by Chris Reynolds

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