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Hosehill Lake


Type	Local Nature Reserve
Location	Reading, Berkshire
OS grid	SU 649 696
Area	23.6 hectares (58 acres)
Managed by	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Hosehill Lake is a 23.6-hectare (58-acre) Local Nature Reserve west of Reading in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

Geography and site

To the east and south of the lake is meadowland. The eastern meadow is cut and then grazed by wild Exmoor ponies for a short period in the spring and autumn, and the south meadow is a butterfly meadow.

The site features a one-mile circular walk around the lake.

History

Hosehill Lake was given its nature reserve status in 1997 by Newbury District Council. Since it became a nature reserve, an island has been created in the lake, along with Tern Rafts, a Sand Martin Bank and the Butterfly Meadow.

In 2013 the management of the nature reserve was transferred from West Berkshire Council to the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

Fauna

The site has seen 168 different bird species. Some of the more common birds seen are listed here:

Birds

References

^ "Hosehill Lake". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
"Map of Hosehill Lake". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
^ "Hosehill Lake". Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
"Parks in Newbury, West Berkshire | Waterways in Newbury, West Berkshire". Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
^ Theale Area Bird Conservation Group. - Theale Sites
Wildlife trust set to run West Berkshire nature reserves – Get Reading

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Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Berkshire

Bracknell Forest	Chawridge Bank Wildmoor Heath
Slough	Haymill Valley
West Berkshire	Audrey's Meadow Avery's Pightle Bowdown Woods Bucklebury Common Decoy Heath Greenham and Crookham Commons Hosehill Lake Inkpen Common Inkpen Crocus Field Kintbury Newt Ponds Moor Copse Nature Discovery Centre Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve Paices Wood Country Parkland Rack Marsh Seven Barrows Snelsmore Common Country Park Sole Common Pond Thatcham Reed Beds Watts Bank Wokefield Common
Windsor and Maidenhead	Hurley Chalk Pit
Wokingham	Loddon Nature Reserve Shepperlands Farm

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury Vale	Aston Clinton Ragpits Bernwood Meadows Calvert Jubilee College Lake Dancersend with Pavis Woods Finemere Wood Foxcote Reservoir Hog and Hollowhill Woods Pilch Fields Rushbeds Wood Upper Ray Meadows Weston Turville Reservoir Yoesden
Chiltern	Long Grove Wood
Milton Keynes	Little Linford Wood
Wycombe	Bacombe Hill Gomm Valley Grangelands and The Rifle Range Homefield Wood Millfield Wood

Oxfordshire

Cherwell	Ardley Wood Quarry Asham Meads Hook Norton Cutting Lamb's Pool Oxey Mead Whitecross Green Wood Woodford Bottom and Lamb's Pool Woodsides Meadow
Oxford	CS Lewis Nature Reserve Iffley Meadows
South Oxfordshire	Chinnor Hill Cholsey Marsh Hartslock Oakley Hill Sydlings Copse Warren Bank Wells Farm
Vale of White Horse	Dry Sandford Pit Hitchcopse Pit Lashford Lane Fen Letcombe Valley Parsonage Moor Tuckmill Meadow Warburg Nature Reserve
West Oxfordshire	Blenheim Farm Chimney Meadows Foxholes Glyme Valley Westwell Gorse

v t e Local nature reserves in Berkshire
Bracknell Forest	Ambarrow Court Edgbarrow Woods Englemere Pond Farley Copse Hayley Green Wood Jock's Copse Piggy Wood Temple Copse Tinkers Copse Whitegrove Copse
Reading	Blundells Copse Clayfield Copse Lousehill Copse McIlroy Park Round Copse
Slough	Cocksherd Wood Haymill Valley Herschel Park
West Berkshire	Hosehill Lake Padworth Common Thatcham Reed Beds
Windsor and Maidenhead	Arthur Jacob Nature Reserve Bisham Woods Bradnam Wood Braywick Park Carpenter's Wood The Gullet Ockwells Park Park Wood and Goulding's Wood Sutherland Grange
Wokingham	Alder Moors Ali's Pond Heath Lake Highwood Holt Copse & Joel Park Lavells Lake Longmoor Bog Maiden Erlegh Lakes The Marshes Pearman's Copse Swallowfield Meadow

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