Chettisham Meadow
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Chettisham Meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest
managed as a nature reserve
by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough
. It is located north of Ely
and west of the village of Chettisham
in the county of Cambridgeshire
. In January 2009 an appeal by the Wildlife Trust to buy Chettisham Meadow reached its target; it had managed the site as a tenant since 1972.
Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...
managed as a nature reserve
Nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough
Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough is a wildlife trust covering the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and the City of Peterborough in England....
. It is located north of Ely
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, 14 miles north-northeast of Cambridge and about by road from London. It is built on a Lower Greensand island, which at a maximum elevation of is the highest land in the Fens...
and west of the village of Chettisham
Chettisham
Chettisham a very small village in East Cambridgeshire between Ely and Littleport. The main claim to fame is the level crossing along the A10, the few houses in the layby and the old signal box where there was once a Chettisham railway station on the line between Ely and March.There are some...
in the county of Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
. In January 2009 an appeal by the Wildlife Trust to buy Chettisham Meadow reached its target; it had managed the site as a tenant since 1972.