{"id":58946,"date":"2026-08-18T19:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/work-on-new-hungerford-nature-reserve-set-to-start-next-month\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:52:38","slug":"work-on-new-hungerford-nature-reserve-set-to-start-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/work-on-new-hungerford-nature-reserve-set-to-start-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on new Hungerford nature reserve set to start next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A \u00a31.5m project to build a new nature reserve for a town on poor quality, unmanaged meadows will start next month.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Kennet Valley Wetland Reserve will be constructed on about 16 hectares (40 acres) of land at Undy&#8217;s Meadow, on the northern edge of Hungerford and close to the River Kennet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Town and Manor of Hungerford, the charity that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj372p0vm17o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">organises its Tutti Day celebrations<\/a>, is behind the plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kate Edwards, from the charity, said the nature reserve will be a &#8220;very special thing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a proper nature reserve; it will be somewhere you can go and sit quietly,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The focus is the wildlife and we&#8217;re going to be privileged enough hopefully to sit on the benches, walk the paths and see and hear the willow warblers and the grasshopper warblers. Hopefully lots of wetland birds will come in and use the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the community has given the plan the &#8220;most incredible support&#8221; and that construction work must be carried out between September and December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It must not be done before September because of nesting birds but cannot be done after December because the ground would be too wet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first stage of work, including a landscape, paths and boardwalks, is expected to be in place by next summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cyvlz215ye4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a31.5m project to build a new nature reserve for a town on poor quality, unmanaged meadows will start next month. The Kennet Valley Wetland Reserve will be constructed on about 16 hectares (40 acres) of land at Undy&#8217;s Meadow, on the northern edge of Hungerford and close to the River Kennet. The Town and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[16370,392,266,5450,86,1486,81],"class_list":["post-58946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-hungerford","tag-month","tag-nature","tag-reserve","tag-set","tag-start","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58948,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58946\/revisions\/58948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}