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Description
Upper Ray Meadows is run by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. The Upper Ray Meadows Nature Reserve is a core part of BBOWT's Upper River Ray Living Landscape, a Wildife Trust project to create space for wildlife and people together. A major part of this work has been to create a range of features such as shallow pools, scrapes and ditches. These help to retain water and wetness into late spring - a crucial time for feeding wader chicks. Birds seen here include голем српоклун свиркач, калуѓерка, патка свиркач, патка берија, златно блатарче, жолтогрла стрнарка, Жолта тресиопашка, рибарче, мала бела чапја, обична бекасина and Мочварна овесарка. There is a bird hide. Wildflowers include pepper saxifrage, burnet and knapweed.
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Access
By car: go east from Bicester on A41 for 4 miles. By bus: no 17 from Aylesbury or Bicester stops at Grendon Underwood. Bus 112 from Waddesdon or Aylesbury stops at Ludgershall. Nearest train station: Bicester. Opening times; Cow Leys, Grange Meadow, Long Herdon Meadow, Leaches Farm, Ludgershall Meadows - access all year. Dorothy Bolton Meadow - access July-September. Leaches Meadow, Three Points Meadow - no access. Gallows Bridge Farm - no access except to bird hide. Meadow Farm - open for pre-booked groups and events.
Parking Info: For Cow Leys, from Bicester take A41 towards Aylesbury; after railway bridge take right turn signed for Piddington, reserve immediately on your left, park on soft verge on left. For Dorothy Bolton Meadow go along the A41 from Bicester to Aylesbury, take second road on left signed to Marsh Gibbon and park on soft verge 100 m on right. For Long Herdon and Grange Meadows continue for 0.75 miles and park on verge 500 m from reserve. For Leaches Farm continue on A41 and park in layby on left just past Leaches Farm Business Centre, access reserve over the stile on the public footpath. For Gallows Bridge Farm continue 1.5 miles and take road on left signed Grendon Underwood, after 100 m turn left and park at end of track. For Ludgershall Meadows use parking as for Leaches Farm; access site through gate, south-east tip of Leaches Farm. For Meadow Farm (only open for pre-booked groups and events) take A41 from Bicester towards Aylesbury; take B4011 right turn signed for Blackthorn, go past Blackthorn village, and entrance to Meadow Farm on left, park beyond the farmhouse.