Explore Whisby Nature Park

 Description and Facilities

The Nature Park entrance on Moor Lane leads to the Whisby Natural World complex of carparks and buildings detailed below. The Nature Park lies a few minutes walk beyond.

Whisby Nature Park was opened in 1989. There are two full-time wardens who undertake habitat management and amenity maintenance and development on behalf of visitors. The Nature Park comprises a complex of small, medium and large flooded gravel pits. Some former pits in the area have been used as sediment lagoons and now form wet willow scrub or clay grasslands where the appropriate management has been undertaken. There is only one major stream, an agricultural drain of some local importance, the Pike Drain.

Dense willow and birch scrub can be found over wide areas in the north of the Nature Park on spoil between the pits. A small oak woodland lies alongside the railway, and near to the sites of former gravel works, there are very dry, open expanses of gravel.

Access

Access through the Nature Park comprises clay banks around the former excavations, and the total length approaches 6.5 miles. Along this network are 20 seats and 6 bird hides, not to mention waymarkers and a brand new set of seven large interpretation boards explaining the habitats and species to be seen through the seasons.

For further information visit

http://www.lincstrust.org.uk/reserves/whisby/index.php