Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve

Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve has been created as a result of gravel extraction alongside teh River Lark close to Bury St Edmunds. The complex habitats at Lackford Lakes include 45ha of open grassland habitat which is managed through grazing and mowing, criss crossed and linked up by a network of established hedges which mark original field boundaries and roadside hedges along access tracks. These are BAP habitats and the project aims to buy machinary needed to improve their management for nature conservation – a tractor mounted hedge trimmer for hedgerow management and a hay mower, hay tedder and hay baler for grassland management.