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Berry Fen

neutral grassland in Earith, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ28406892 ↗
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Berry Fen is a 15.3-hectare (38-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Earith in Cambridgeshire.

This neutral grassland periodically floods in the winter. It is used by wintering wildfowl, including Bewick's swans in nationally numbers, especially when the nearby Ouse Washes flood too deeply. There are wetland herbs such as marsh ragwort, and the rare narrow-leaved water-dropwort.

The site is private land with no public access.

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“Berry Fen” enters the record as neutral grassland in Earith, England. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Berry, neutral and grassland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Berry Fen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.