🦎 Grafham Water

United Kingdom · Europe · Nature Reserve · 52.30°N, 0.32°W

Grafham Water is an 806.3-hectare (1,992-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) north of Perry, Huntingdonshire. It was designated an SSSI in 1986. It is a reservoir with a circumference of about 16 km (10 mi), is 21 m (69 ft) deep at maximum, and is the eighth largest reservoir in England by volume and the joint third largest by area at 6.27 km2. An area of 114 ha at the western end is a nature reserve managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Protection type	🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)	52.30°N, 0.32°W · view on map

Grafham Water is a nature reserve in United Kingdom, in Europe. The details of why Grafham Water is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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