Cople Pits

Cople Pits is a two hectare nature reserve in Cople in Bedfordshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[1]

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.^[1]

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

References

1 2 "Cople Pits". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 15 December 2015.

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Coordinates: 52°07′49″N 0°23′24″W / 52.1302°N 0.3899°W / 52.1302; -0.3899

Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Bedfordshire

Bedford	Begwary Brook Cople Pits Felmersham Gravel Pits Pavenham Osier Beds Sewell Cutting Sharnbrook Summit Wymington Meadow
Central Bedfordshire	Arlesey Old Moat and Glebe Meadows Barton Gravel Pit Blow's Downs Cooper's Hill Cut-throat Meadow Dropshort Marsh Fancott Woods and Meadows Flitwick Moor King's Wood and Rammamere Heath Lancot Meadow Landpark Wood Old Warden Tunnel Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit The Riddy Sallowsprings Totternhoe

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge	Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits Skaters' Meadow
East Cambridgeshire	Chettisham Meadow Doghouse Grove Fordham Woods Ouse Washes Roswell Pits Soham Meadow
Fenland	Lattersey Norwood Road
Huntingdonshire	Arthur's Meadow Brampton Wood Gamsey Wood Godmanchester Grafham Water Great Fen Houghton Meadows Lady's Wood Pingle Cutting Raveley Wood Shepherd's Close Upwood Meadows Waresley and Gransden Woods Wistow Wood Woodwalton Marsh
Peterborough	Dogsthorpe Star Pit Southorpe Meadow Southorpe Paddock Stanground Newt Ponds Stanground Wash Thorpe Wood Wansford Pasture & Standen's Pasture Woodston Ponds
South Cambridgeshire	Beechwoods Buff Wood Cambourne Fulbourn Fen Gamlingay Cinques Gamlingay Wood Hardwick Wood Hayley Wood Lower Wood Overhall Grove Shepreth L Moor Trumpington Meadows

Northamptonshire

Corby	Great Oakley Meadow King's Wood Stoke Wood End Quarter
Daventry	Byfield Pool Harlestone Heath High Wood and Meadow Pitsford Water Nature Reserve Ramsden Corner Woodford Halse
East Northamptonshire	Collyweston Quarries Ditchford Lakes and Meadows Glapthorn Cow Pastures Higham Ferrers Pits Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows Old Sulehay Short Wood and Southwick Wood Titchmarsh Twywell Hills and Dales Wilson's Pits
Kettering	Barford Wood and Meadows The Plens Rothwell Gullet Southfield Farm Marsh Tailby Meadow Wicksteed Park
Northampton	Abington Meadows Barnes Meadow Bradlaugh Fields Duston Mill Meadow Kingsthorpe Meadow Lings Storton's Pits
South Northamptonshire	Boddington Meadow Bugbrooke Meadow Farthinghoe Grafton Regis Meadow Mill Crook Stoke Bruerne Brick Pits
Wellingborough	Finedon Cally Banks Summer Leys

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