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Magog
Down
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The Magog Trust is creating an area
for conservation and informal recreation on the Gog Magog hills just south of
the boundary of the City of Cambridge, off the A1307 road to Linton and on
Haverhill Road, Stapleford.
Magog Down is owned and managed by
the Governors of the Magog Trust who bought it in 1989. It covers 163.5 acres
of previously intensively farmed arable land. It is freely open to all, all
year round.
It has: |
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Two meadows sown with wild flowers and grasses native
to chalk grassland. Six woods, planted between 1990 and 1992, with 24,000
trees native to the chalk meadows of over a century ago |
It is seeing the return of ground-nesting
birds, like the skylark, and native flowering plants like the
cowslip.
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The Magog Trust
is a Registered Charity No. 802150 and a Company limited by guarantee,
registered in England No. 2426534. Registered Office: Verger's
Cottage, 1 Gog Magog Way, Stapleford, Cambridge CB22 5BQ
PRESIDENT: Christopher South PATRONS: The Lord
Lieutenant Hugh Duberly CBE, Ian Hay Davison CBE, Professor Stephen W
Hawking CBE CH FRS PhD, David Rayner |
© 2009 The Magog
Trust Updated: 31 October 2009 |