Harrold-Odell Country Park

The Harrold-Odell Country Park is a 59.3 hectare Country park and Local Nature Reserve between the villages of Odell and Harrold in Bedfordshire. It is owned and managed by Bedford Borough Council, and it has a cafe, toilets and an information room.^[1]^[2]

The site was formerly a sand and gravel quarry, and was converted to a park in the 1980s.^[3] is bordered on its southern and eastern side by the River Great Ouse. It has two lakes, water meadows and woodland, some of which is seasonally flooded. There is a wide variety of birds, and mammals include otters, shrews and bats.^[1]

There is access from Carlton Road.

References

1 2 "Harrold-Odell Country Park". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
↑ "Map of". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
↑ "Welcome to Harrold-Odell Country Park". Friends of Harrold-Odell Country Park. Retrieved 24 September 2015.

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Coordinates: 52°12′21″N 0°35′49″W / 52.20583°N 0.59694°W / 52.20583; -0.59694

Local Nature Reserves in Bedfordshire

Bedford	Bromham Lake Browns Wood Fenlake Meadows Harrold-Odell Country Park Hill Rise Mowsbury Hill Park Wood Putnoe Wood

Central Bedfordshire	Cooper's Hill Cottage Bottom Fields Flitton Moor Flitwick Wood Henlow Common and Langford Meadows Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow The Riddy Stotfold Mill Meadows Totternhoe Knolls

Luton	Galley and Warden Hills

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