The Plens

The Plens
The Plens lightly covered in snow

Type	Nature reserve
Location	Desborough, Northamptonshire
OS grid	SP 809 839
Area	5 hectares
Managed by	Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

The Plens is a 5 hectare nature reserve in Desborough in Northamptonshire. It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[1]

Former use as a quarry and a railway line have created steep slopes and varied habitats, with grassland, hawthorn scrub, woodland and herbs. Flowers include wild basil, bladder campion, moschatel and bird's-foot-trefoil. There is a diverse range of invertebrates, particularly butterflies.^[2]

There is access from Ironwood Avenue.

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References

^ "The Plens". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ "Welcome to The Plens Nature Reserve" (PDF). Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 12 February 2017.

52°26′49″N 0°48′40″W / 52.447°N 0.811°W / 52.447; -0.811

Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Bedfordshire

Bedford	Begwary Brook Cople Pits Felmersham Gravel Pits Pavenham Osier Beds Sewell Cutting Sharnbrook Summit Wymington Meadow
Central Bedfordshire	Arlesey Old Moat and Glebe Meadows Barton Gravel Pit Blow's Downs Cooper's Hill Cut-throat Meadow Dropshort Marsh Fancott Woods and Meadows Flitwick Moor King's Wood and Rammamere Heath Lancot Meadow Landpark Wood Old Warden Tunnel Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit The Riddy Sallowsprings Totternhoe

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge	Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits Skaters' Meadow
East Cambridgeshire	Chettisham Meadow Doghouse Grove Fordham Woods Ouse Washes Soham Meadow
Fenland	Lattersey Norwood Road
Huntingdonshire	Arthur's Meadow Brampton Wood Gamsey Wood Godmanchester Grafham Water Great Fen Houghton Meadows Lady's Wood Pingle Cutting Raveley Wood Shepherd's Close Upwood Meadows Waresley and Gransden Woods Wistow Wood Woodwalton Marsh
Peterborough	Dogsthorpe Star Pit Southorpe Meadow Southorpe Paddock Stanground Newt Ponds Stanground Wash Thorpe Wood Wansford Pasture & Standen's Pasture Woodston Ponds
South Cambridgeshire	Beechwoods Buff Wood Cambourne Fulbourn Fen Gamlingay Cinques Gamlingay Wood Hardwick Wood Hayley Wood Lower Wood Overhall Grove Shepreth L Moor Trumpington Meadows

Northamptonshire

North Northamptonshire	Barford Wood and Meadows Collyweston Quarries Ditchford Lakes and Meadows Finedon Cally Banks Glapthorn Cow Pastures Great Oakley Meadow Higham Ferrers Pits Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows King's Wood Old Sulehay The Plens Rothwell Gullet Short Wood and Southwick Wood Southfield Farm Marsh Stoke Wood End Quarter Summer Leys Tailby Meadow Titchmarsh Wicksteed Park Wilson's Pits
West Northamptonshire	Abington Meadows Barnes Meadow Boddington Meadow Bradlaugh Fields Bugbrooke Meadow Duston Mill Meadow Farthinghoe Grafton Regis Meadow Harlestone Heath High Wood and Meadow Kingsthorpe Meadow Lings Mill Crook Pitsford Water Nature Reserve Ramsden Corner Stoke Bruerne Brick Pits Storton's Pits Woodford Halse

North Northamptonshire