The Cotswold Water Park

The Cotswold Water Park (CWP) lies in 40 square miles of farmland and wetland between Cirencester, Swindon and Lechlade. To date 145 lakes have been flooded (April 2006) and this is set to increase over 50 years, creating other wetland habitats. CWP holds nationally important numbers of wintering waterbird, e.g. Smew, Great Crested Grebe, Gadwall, Coot and Pochard. In Spring and Summer visitors can hear Nightingales or see flocks of Hobby’s migrating through.

Permissive Footpath at Wheatleys Barn Farm (Lake 95)

Published by The Cotswold Water Park the 25/9/2008 at 22:16 . Permalink.

A polite request to anyone using the permissive footpath at Lake 95; please do not take matters into your own hands and start trimming back the hedgerow. The landowner and the Cotswold Water Park Society are currently working on a long term solution to this problem. Please bear with us.

Some of the vegetation along this footpath is Barberry, Berberis vulgaris, a thorny hedgerow shrub; at this location, this Barberry is protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 and is part of a larger project in the Cotswold Water Park and North Wiltshire; please don’t damage these plants.

If you have further queries, please let me know: Gareth Harris, Biodiversity Officer, Cotswold Water Park Society

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