Cambridge Ponds and Water Life
Cambridge City

There are probably more ponds in Cambridge city than most people realise, and I'm not including garden ponds! There are, visible on the map, many large ponds in the various university gardens and grounds such that it would be difficult to list them all.

Place Map RefDetails
Cherry Hinton 480 574Beside Railway
Cherry Hinton Hall 483 564
Coldham's common Newmarket Road/Railway line
Impington alongside A14
Milton Country Parkconverted gravel pit
Science Park 46 613 large ponds


Cherry Hinton


Cherry Hinton Hall


Coldham's common


Impington


Milton Country Park


Science Park

There are three large ponds in the Science park which are fairly recent creations: they are not shown on a map dated 1980.

Keith Edkins (WWW site), who also supplied the photos, says :

Three ponds - verging on lakes at references 463 617 466 614 and 466 617. I presume these are fairly modern creations within the last 30 years, but they do have a good basis of wildlife. I identified blue-tailed damselflies, large reds, common darters and black-tailed skimmers this year and a Calopteryx last year; and there are mallards and moorhens aplenty.
(7th November 2002)

There are pictures of these damselflies at bluetailed and skimmer.

For a larger picture of the lake, click on the appropriate thumbnail.

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