Kingsthorpe Meadow

Kingsthorpe Meadow

Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Northampton
OS grid	SP 745 626
Area	14.4 hectares
Managed by	Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Kingsthorpe Meadow is a 14.4 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Northampton. It is owned by Northampton Borough Council and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.^[1]^[2]

This site on the Brampton arm of the River Nene is often flooded in the winter. There are hedges and ponds, together with areas of scrub. Birds include green woodpeckers, kestrels and snipe.^[3]

There is access from Mill Lane.^[1]

References

1 2 "Kingsthorpe". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
↑ "Map of Kingsthorpe". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
↑ "Kingsthorpe Meadow". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 21 December 2016.

Coordinates: 52°15′25″N 0°54′36″W / 52.257°N 0.91°W / 52.257; -0.91

Local Nature Reserves in Northamptonshire
Corby	Great Oakley Meadow King's Wood
Daventry	Crowfields Common Daventry Country Park
East Northamptonshire	Kinewell Lake Titchmarsh
Kettering	Tailby Meadow
Northampton	Barnes Meadow Hills and Holes Kingsthorpe Lings Wood Scrub Field Storton's Pit
South Northamptonshire	Farthinghoe Greens Norton Pocket Park Tiffield Pocket Park
Wellingborough	Glamis Meadow and Wood Summer Leys

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

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

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