East Cambridgeshire was recently named the 'best place to live' in the county. The area also got the silver medal as the ...

Cranes and great white egrets appeared within hours of the water levels being raised at Wicken Fen, as the National Trust ...

A National Trust project at Wicken Fen successfully restored degraded peatlands, leading to the swift return of rare wetland ...

Credit: National Trust Another part of the project focused on Burwell Fen, which was reclaimed for agriculture during the Second World War and acquired by the National Trust in 2001. A clay bund ...

While work was in progress, the bog oak was found at an area known as Spinney Bank, on Burwell Fen. They said it began growing in 2894BC, lived for 222 years, pre-dating the start of peat ...

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Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, which has been looked after by the conservation charity since 1899, has undergone six months of various works.

The completion of the National Trust’s largest lowland peat restoration project at its oldest nature reserve has been hailed as a “powerful step forward in the restoration of our natural world”.