Stukeley Meadows Local Nature Reserve is an 11 acre site made up of grassland, bramble thickets and wetland adjacent to Stukeley Meadows housing estate in Huntingdon. 

Facilities

The site does not have toilet facilities.

Activities

The site is perfect for a relaxing walk, a bike ride or kite flying and playing football.

Schools are more than welcome to visit the site for a morning or an afternoon.  Stukeley Meadows School children have been taken pond dipping, minibeast hunting & generally having fun discovering the resident plants and animals.  Use the link to the right to download a copy of our education brochure.

Wildlife & Management

The wide variety of habitats on the site provide homes for insects, including butterflies and bushcrickets.  Barrack Brook runs through the reserve & because it appears to be no more than a concrete channel for draining flood water away from the Stukeley Meadows estate, its delights are not immediately apparent.  On closer inspection, you can spot stickleback fish darting in and out of the watercress lined edge.  Other residents are loaches and, during spring, frogs & toads and even kingfishers have been spotted catching the stickleback.

We have developed a mowing regime to enhance the long grass areas, the margins along the banks of the brook and protect the large numbers of bee orchids found on the Local Nature Reserve.

The FLOWS Project Sculpture

The fantastic sculpture at the entrance off Wertheim Way is the culmination of a project with children from Stukeley Meadows Primary School looking at climate change, flooding & the prevention of flooding. The project was a partnership between FLOWS (Cambridgeshire County Council), Environment Agency, Cambridgeshire Environmental Education Service and Huntingdon Town Council. 

The artist Anthony Lysycia created the sandstone sculpture which was installed on the site in the summer of 2004.

FLOWS is a European project & was initiated by Cambridgeshire County Council to look for solutions to the increased flood risk issues posed by climate change and deliver practical projects to identify how we need to adapt to learn to live with water.  FLOWS is an acronym for Floodplain Land Use Optimising Workable Sustainability. This means communities adapting to climate change and living with water.  For more information see the link to the FLOWS website to the right.

As part of the initial consultation the local residents identified a need for play equipment for children.  The result is a trim trail provided and maintained by Huntingdon Town Council.

Access to the reserve can be gained from Stukeley Road, Wertheim Way (opposite Homebase) or Crummock Water in Stukeley Meadows housing estate, Huntingdon.  Use the link to the right for a location map on multimap.com - the reserve is just on your left as you turn into Wertheim Way.

Telephone/fax: 01480 451568