Kintbury Newt Ponds

Kintbury Newt Ponds


Type	Nature reserve
Location	Kintbury, Berkshire
OS grid	SU386663
Area	3 hectares (7.4 acres)
Managed by	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Kintbury Newt Ponds is a 3-hectare (7.4-acre) nature reserve in Kintbury in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.^[1]

The reserve is made up of several ponds, reedbed, scrub and grassland.^[2]

History

Kintbury Newt Ponds was given its nature reserve status in the late 1990s when the site was discovered to have resident Great Crested Newts, which stopped a housing development being built on the site.^[1]

Fauna

The site has the following fauna:^[3]^[1]

Amphibians

Great Crested Newt
Smooth Newt
Palmate newt

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References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Kintbury Newt Ponds". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
^ Map Categories Kintbury Newt Ponds| North Wessex Downs AONB
^ Map Categories | North Wessex Downs AONB

51°23′42″N 1°26′45″W / 51.3949°N 1.4459°W / 51.3949; -1.4459

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Berkshire

Bracknell Forest	Chawridge Bank Wildmoor Heath
Slough	Haymill Valley
West Berkshire	Audrey's Meadow Avery's Pightle Bowdown Woods Bucklebury Common Decoy Heath Greenham and Crookham Commons Hosehill Lake Inkpen Common Inkpen Crocus Field Kintbury Newt Ponds Moor Copse Nature Discovery Centre Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve Paices Wood Country Parkland Rack Marsh Seven Barrows Snelsmore Common Country Park Sole Common Pond Thatcham Reed Beds Watts Bank Wokefield Common
Windsor and Maidenhead	Hurley Chalk Pit
Wokingham	Loddon Nature Reserve Shepperlands Farm

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury Vale	Aston Clinton Ragpits Bernwood Meadows Calvert Jubilee College Lake Dancersend with Pavis Woods Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir Hog and Hollowhill Woods Pilch Fields Rushbeds Wood Upper Ray Meadows Weston Turville Reservoir Yoesden
Chiltern	Long Grove Wood
Milton Keynes	Little Linford Wood
Wycombe	Bacombe Hill Gomm Valley Grangelands and The Rifle Range Homefield Wood Millfield Wood

Oxfordshire

Cherwell	Ardley Wood Quarry Asham Meads Hook Norton Cutting Lamb's Pool Oxey Mead Whitecross Green Wood Woodford Bottom and Lamb's Pool Woodsides Meadow
Oxford	CS Lewis Nature Reserve Iffley Meadows
South Oxfordshire	Chinnor Hill Cholsey Marsh Hartslock Oakley Hill Sydlings Copse Warren Bank Wells Farm
Vale of White Horse	Dry Sandford Pit Hitchcopse Pit Lashford Lane Fen Letcombe Valley Parsonage Moor Tuckmill Meadow Warburg Nature Reserve
West Oxfordshire	Blenheim Farm Chimney Meadows Foxholes Glyme Valley Westwell Gorse