imported>Entranced98: Adding local short description: "Nature reserve in Bedfordshire, England", overriding Wikidata description "nature reserve in the United Kingdom"

2025-03-30T10:28:31Z

Adding local short description: "Nature reserve in Bedfordshire, England", overriding Wikidata description "nature reserve in the United Kingdom"

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{{Short description|Nature reserve in Bedfordshire, England}}
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'''Cople Pits''' is a {{convert|2|hectare|acre|adj=on}} [[nature reserve]] in [[Cople]] in [[Bedfordshire]]. It is managed by the [[Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire]].<ref name=cople>{{cite web|url=http://www.wildlifebcn.org/reserves/cople-pits|title= Cople Pits|publisher=Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire|accessdate=15 December 2015}}</ref>

The site has eleven long water-filled pits from gravel extraction in the 1930s, which are now surrounded by willow and hawthorn scrub. The pits have been colonised by aquatic plants. Fauna include dragonflies, kingfishers and woodpeckers, and there is also a wildflower meadow.<ref name=cople/>

There is access by a short footpath from Willington Road, adjacent to All Saints Road.

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[[Category:Nature reserves in Bedfordshire]]
[[Category:Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire reserves]]
[[Category:Cople|Pits]]

Cople Pits - Revision history

imported>Entranced98: Adding local short description: "Nature reserve in Bedfordshire, England", overriding Wikidata description "nature reserve in the United Kingdom"