Frays Farm Meadows Nature Reserve and the Frays River
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Frays Farm Meadows Nature Reserve and the Frays River
Image: © David Leeming Taken: 21 Jul 2008
A downstream view of the Frays River near the disused railway. The adjacent grazing meadows are designated as a SSSI as they represent one of the few remaining areas of a habitat that was once extensive in the Colne Valley before gravel extraction, urbanisation and agricultural intensification. The Frays River is a distributory of the River Colne - it splits from that river about a 500m upstream of this point, before passing under the Grand Union Canal (which was built later) to reach this area. The Frays River eventually rejoins the River Colne further down the Colne Valley.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.56387
Longitude
-0.475625