Sandilands Pit
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Flooded clay pit which supports a variety of birds.
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Stanton's Pit
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The area was formerly a sand pit and the main interest is ornithological.
Fairfield Pit
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Clay pit which is attractive to wading birds and surface-feeding wildfowl.
Hitchcopse Pit
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Hitchcopse Pit is an old sandpit with a fascinating array of plant and insect life.
Chapel Pit
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A flooded pit with marginal reed beds and aquatic plants, such as water-crowfoot and great reed mace.
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Barton Gravel Pit
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A small gravel pit now a safe haven for chalk grassland
Baker's Pit
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The reserve consists of heathland, small areas of pasture, and open water, which was created by flooding the disused clay pits.
Huttoft Bank Pit
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Clay pit with large open water area as well as extensive reedbeds.
Broadway Gravel Pit
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Plenty of plants, birds and mammals have colonised this seasonally-flooded former gravel pit.
Hurley Chalk Pit
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A sliver of beech woodland and chalk grassland, Hurley Chalk Pit is visited by 15 species of butterfly and is home to wild orchids.
Wolla Bank Pit
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Flooded clay pits with extensive reed beds.