Fen Drayton
In times of heavy rain and river flooding, the entire reserve goes under water, including car parks and most rights of way. The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway Recent will pass through the reserve using part of the old Cambridge and Huntingdon railway and the busway was opposed at the planning stage for disturbing this reserve. 71.5% of the population were Christian, compared to 1.1% listed under other religion (27.4% claimed no religion or did not state a religion). Just north of the village is the Fen Drayton Nature Reserve, a 108 hectares (267 acres) reserve comprising four lakes formed from exhausted sand and gravel pits.In particular, Gadwall, Wigeon, Pintail, Goldeneye, Smew, Coot and Bittern populations may be seen: it is estimated that 2% of the UK s Bittern population, and 4% of the UK s cold weather Smew population, reside here, making it an important site. The reserve is accessible from the surrounding villages of Fen Drayton, Swavesey and Fenstanton. Coordinates: 52°17′N 0°02′W / 52.29°N 0.03°W / 52.29; -0.03 Fen Drayton is a small village between Cambridge and St.
The route for the guided busway was cleared or vegetation over the winter 2007–2008. It is planned that the reserve will become part of a much larger wetland area along the River Great Ouse linking to the Hanson-RSPB Wetland Project at Needingworth Quarry that should become Britain s largest reedbed within the next 30 years. Fen Drayton was traditionally a agricultural village, like many in Cambridgeshire, surrounded by fenland. It is not accessible from nearby Holywell as Holywell is other side of the River Great Ouse and there is no bridge. It is open every day (and all day), with no charge, and two car parks, rights of way (footpaths, bridleways and a byway) and hides around the lakes.
The population was nearly entirely white (99.3%), with 0.4% Asian/Asian British, and 0.4% of mixed ethnicity. The land is very flat and so is regularly floods. .
These were worked since the 1950s, by ARC (now Hanson plc), and is now a habitat for some 190 bird species, along with other associated wildlife. Ives in Cambridgeshire, England, and between the villages of Fenstanton and Swavesey. Much of the working population commutes to work in one of the larger towns or cities nearby, however, there are also a number of farms in the village, some still active. The village has a primary school, village hall, tennis courts and football fields, where Drayton Lions Football Club play their home matches, and a pub (The Three Tuns).
The church (a Church of England) is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. The village is close to the A14, the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway and is on National Cycle Route 51. According to the 2001 census, it is home to 827 people, living in some 329 dwellings.
