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Snail sculpture at the entrance to Dinton Pastures Country Park

Dinton Pastures Country Park is a country park in the civil parish of St Nicholas Hurst, in the borough of Wokingham, near Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

Geography and site

The park is Шаблон:Convert in size.[1] It has seven lakes, two rivers, three public bird hides, and meadows.[2] One of the lakes, Lavells Lake is designated as a local nature reserve.[3] The two rivers that flow through the park are the River Loddon and the Emm Brook.[4][5] The Museum of Berkshire Aviation and the headquarters of the British Entomological and Natural History Society are both located in the park.[6][7]

The site is popular for a number of sports including sailing, angling, kayaking, canoeing,[2] and running, playing host to a parkrun.[8] Other facilities include play areas and a cafe.[9][10]

History

Anglo Saxons farmed the park's river meadows and called the area Whistley, where "wisc" means marshy meadows and "lei" means a woodland clearing.[11] From the start of the 17th century, much of the area then belonged to Windsor Forest.[12]

The present-day cafe was originally a farmhouse built in 1904, which was called 'High Chimneys'.[13] In 1924 the area was sold to a farmer who renamed the farm after his home village of Dinton, near Aylesbury.[14]

The country park is part of the river Loddon's flood plain and so makes a good source of gravel, between 1969 and 1979 an extensive gravel extraction program was carried out. Much of the gravel was used for the M4 and the A329(M).[15]

In 1979 Dinton Pastures was opened to the public.[16] In 1992, part of the country park, Lavells Lake, was declared as a local nature reserve by Wokingham Borough Council.[3]

Fauna

The site has the following fauna:[5][12][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]

Mammals

Invertebrates

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Birds

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Amphibians and reptiles

Fish

Flora

The site has the following flora:[30][31][32]

Trees

Plants

References

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External links

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