Nine Wells Local Nature Reserve

United Kingdom / England / Cambridge /

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The spring has provided Cambridge with fresh drinking water from the 1600s onwards. Water travels along Hobsons Brook towards town parallel to Trumpington Road. Following its course from farm land North West of Addenbrookes it goes under Long Road, then Brooklands Avenue, then Bateman Street before disappearing underground at the junction with
Lensfield Road.

lnr.cambridge.gov.uk/reserves/nine_wells/

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Coordinates: 52°9'59"N 0°8'7"E

Abberton Reservoir 59 km
Hanningfield Reservoir 60 km
Colne Estuary National Nature Reserve 65 km
Alton Water Reservoir 69 km
Neptune Marina 71 km
Ratsborough Farm 74 km
Lion Creek 75 km
Essex Marina Club 76 km
The Rays'n or Ray Sand channel. 80 km
Levington Marina 80 km

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