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Wilwell Farm Nature Reserve

UK nature reserve

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ14995548 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wilwell Farm Nature Reserve or Wilwell Cutting is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire.

The site was originally standard farmland, but in the 1890s a cutting was constructed to take the Great Central Railway's London Extension. The site was located between Ruddington railway station (to the south) and Arkwright Street railway station (to the north). The Great Central Main Line was closed in 1969, and in 1976 it was proposed that the cutting should be used for landfill. However local opposition saw it converted into a Nature Reserve.

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External links

"Wilwell Farm Cutting LNR SSSI". Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.

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“Wilwell Farm Nature Reserve” enters the record as uK nature reserve. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wilwell, Farm and Nature can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wilwell, Farm and Nature.
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“Wilwell Farm Nature Reserve” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wilwell, Farm and Nature provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14995548. Authority coordinates are 52.908, -1.158. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wilwell Farm Nature Reserve” 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.