Ponds and Water Life
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Barcham, just north of Soham, has two ponds.
The map shows at map reference 583 755 a pond adjacent to the minor road up to Barcham Corner, with an area of woodland stretching from there to te A142.
In fact almost the whole of this area is filled with ponds - but when I visited (2nd May 2004) it was extremely overgrown and almost totally inaccessible. It is difficult to assess therefore whether the water features are separate of interconnected!
The edges of the pond are quote shallow and have bed used as a dump - there is a house opposite the pond where the occupiers have beaten a path to the water and are clearly using it as a rubbish tip - mostly for grass clippings.
The main pond is only accessible to wildfowl - of which it seems to have plenty - and is full of daphnia. Though not a good place to catch them because of the inaccessibility and the shallow edges.
I have photographs - contact me if you are interested.
On I found:
At 580 763 is shown a lake: this clearly belongs to Barchan Farm and is a much-loved resource as there is a 'landing stage' and a summer house overlooking it. I did not investigate.
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