Butlers Pit.( Fletton lake.) Traditional Cache
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Butlers Pit.( Fletton lake.)
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BISON TUBE
PARKING CAN BE FOUND IN FLEET WAY. FIRST ON THE PODIUM FOR FIRST TO FIND WAS GESANDERSON CONGRATULATIONS GRAHAM. The excavation of clay for brick making has been taking place south of the village of Fletton since the turn of the century and there were up to 19 brick works operating on the site in the early 1900’s. There are now no operational works left after the recent closure of the last of these, Orton Brick Works. At it’s maximum the area of clay pits stretched from Fletton in the north to Yaxley in the south, and from Stanground in the east to within 2-km of the A1 in the west. Most of these pits are now gone, mostly filled with fly-ash (pulverised fuel ash) from the electricity generating industry, and now undergoing development for housing or industry or reclaimed for agriculture pending development. A few pits have been left for amenity in the new developments. These include Orton Brick Pit and Hampton Lakes. The rest are described here. Map of the area Fletton Brick Pit (Butler’s Pit, Fletton Lake) This large pit is immediately south of Fletton High Street and is the area of water visible from the Fletton Parkway at Junction 4. It still has areas of rough ground associated with it along with some thorn thickets. It’s main interest lies in the several hundred Coot which winter on it but it also holds small numbers of Duck and Grebes as well as Kingfisher. It has turned up some of the rarer Grebes in the past and still has potential to produce good birds for the regular watcher. It is most easily accessed from Fleet Way, opposite Lloyds TSB Bank, on Fletton High Street. There is plenty of parking here and you can walk over a grass field and through a gap in the tall hedge. A footpath runs all the way round the pit.
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