🦎 Skaters' Meadow

United Kingdom · Europe · Nature Reserve · 52.19°N, 0.10°E

Skaters' Meadow is a 2-hectare (4.9-acre) nature reserve in Newnham Croft, Cambridge, UK. It is owned by Cambridge Past, Present & Future and leased for management by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. It takes its name from times in the 19th century, when it would freeze and the public were charged to skate around the gas lamp that still stands in the middle.

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Protection type	🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)	52.19°N, 0.10°E · view on map

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

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