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Top 4 Lakes around Great Gransden

Looking to visit the best lakes around Great Gransden? After all, there’s nothing better than the serenity of the lakeshore — or a quick dip when the weather’s warm. So, browse our list of Great Gransden’s top lakes below as recommended by the komoot community, and experience more on your next adventure!

Last updated: June 28, 2026

Paxton Pits Nature Reserve

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Myriad habitats can be found at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, with beautiful lakes, riverside, meadow, reedbed, scrub and woodland. The visitor centre offers refreshments, facilities and friendly expertise.

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Serpentine Lake

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Between the upper "Serpentine Lake" and its neighboring lake, the "Chinese Bridge" connects the areas of the park. The gray herons like to perch above the reed belt of the Serpentine Lakes.

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Kingfisher Hide

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Off the main track to the left you take a narrow wooden walkway out to the hide which has great views over Heronry South Lake as well as Heronry North Lake.

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Haydon Hive overlooks the southern end of Heronry South Lake. From here you can se the Cormorants roosting in the trees on the opposite bank.

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Paxton Pits Nature Reserve

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Paxton Pits is a beautiful nature reserve situated in St Neots in Cambridgeshire. The reserve has a rich array of fantastic wildlife such as nightingales, cormorants, and kingfishers, as well …

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Neil Blair
August 24, 2025, Serpentine Lake

Mainly gravel surfaces. Dry in the summer but certain sections can be muddy after rain.

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Off the main track to the left you take a narrow wooden walkway out to the hide which has great views over Heronry South Lake as well as Heronry North Lake.

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Haydon Hive overlooks the southern end of Heronry South Lake. From here you can se the Cormorants roosting in the trees on the opposite bank.

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Paxton Pits is a beautiful nature reserve situated in St Neots in Cambridgeshire. The reserve has a rich array of fantastic wildlife such as nightingales, cormorants, and kingfishers, as well as a mosaic of beautiful vegetation and habitats such as reedland, scrub, woodland, meadows, and lakes.

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February 14, 2023, Serpentine Lake

Between the upper "Serpentine Lake" and its neighboring lake, the "Chinese Bridge" connects the areas of the park. The gray herons like to perch above the reed belt of the Serpentine Lakes.

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Myriad habitats can be found at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, with beautiful lakes, riverside, meadow, reedbed, scrub and woodland. The visitor centre offers refreshments, facilities and friendly expertise. Kingfishers and nightingales are a common sight and overwintering wildfowl visit during the colder months. In spring and summer, wildflowers, dragonflies, damselflies and butterflies create a vibrant environment.

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