- Source: Fulbourn Fen
Fulbourn Fen is a 27.3-hectare (67-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire. It is privately owned and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
There are ancient meadows on calcareous loam and peat which have never been intensively farmed, so they have a rich diversity of flora and fauna. Herbs in drier areas include cowslip and salad burnet, while wetter areas have tall fen vegetation.
There is access by a track from Stonebridge Lane.
There are eight separately named woods in Fulbourn Fen:
The Cringles - north & north-east
Moat Wood - north-west
Thackets Wood - west
Ansett's Wood - south-west
Old Orchard - south
Hancock's Wood - central
Widow's Wood - south-east
Old Orchard - south
and five separate meadows:
Ox Meadow - west
Moat Meadow - north-west - the site of the remains of Zouches Manor
Long Fen Pasture - central
East Fen Pasture - east
Four Acre - south-east
Zouches Manor
Fulbourn Fen contains the moated remains of a Saxon manor known as Zouches Manor and then Dunmowes Manor. It was one of the Five Manors of Fulbourn and was built by Alan la Zouche, Earl of Brittany (the same family that held Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire).
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