Fleet Pond

Fleet Pond is a lake and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Fleet in Hampshire.^[1]^[2] It is also a Local Nature Reserve.^[3]^[4]

Located on the northern edge of the town of Fleet in northeastern Hampshire, at 21 hectares (52 acres), Fleet Pond is Hampshire's largest freshwater lake. The Reserve’s reed beds, marshes, heathland and woodland provide sanctuary for a rich and diverse community of animal and plant life, including many that are no longer to be found in an ordered, farmed countryside. The lake is extremely shallow, with a maximum depth of 0.82 metres (2.69 ft) bathymetrically recorded in 2008.

The total area of the Reserve is 141 acres (0.57 km²) of which 118 acres (0.48 km²) is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). This applies to the wetlands, the lake and the dry heathland.

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References

↑ "Fleet Pond citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England.
↑ "Map of Fleet Pond". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England.
↑ "Fleet Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.
↑ "Map of Fleet Pond". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.

External links

Fleet Pond Society
Fleet Pond Blog

Map sources for Fleet Pond

Coordinates: 51°17′18″N 0°49′32″W / 51.28824°N 0.82550°W / 51.28824; -0.82550

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire

Basingstoke Canal Beacon Hill, Warnford Blackwater Valley Boulsbury Wood Bourley and Long Valley Burghclere Beacon Butser Hill Catherington Down Cheesefoot Head Chichester Harbour Dibden Bay Ebblake Bog Fleet Pond Foxlease And Ancells Meadows Galley Down Wood Greywell Tunnel Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary Itchen Navigation Ladle Hill Langstone Harbour Lymington River Lymington River Reedbeds Mottisfont Bats New Forest Noar Hill Old Burghclere Lime Quarry Old Winchester Hill Pamber Forest and Silchester Common Portsmouth Harbour River Avon System River Itchen River Test Selborne Common Southampton Common Sowley Pond St. Catherine's Hill Trodds Copse Woolmer Forest

Neighbouring areas Berkshire Dorset Isle of Wight Surrey West Sussex Wiltshire

Hydrology of Hampshire

Main rivers	River Alre River Anton Avon Water River Avon Bartley Water Beaulieu River River Blackwater (River Loddon) River Blackwater (River Test) Bourne Rivulet Candover Brook Cove Brook Dark Water River Dever River Dun River Ems River Hamble River Itchen Kingsley Stream River Loddon Lymington River River Meon Monks Brook Oakhanger Stream Oxney Stream River Rother River Test River Wallington River Wey River Whitewater

Canals and Navigations	Andover Canal Basingstoke Canal Itchen Navigation Portsmouth and Arundel Canal Salisbury and Southampton Canal Titchfield Canal

Ordinary watercourses	Bentworth Stream West End Brook

Lakes, ponds and wetlands	Chessel Bay Eyeworth Pond Farlington Marshes Fleet Pond Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes Lakeside Country Park Manor Farm duck pond Sowley Pond Testwood Lakes Waggoners Wells

Coast	Chichester Harbour Langstone Harbour Portsmouth Harbour Solent Southampton Water

Categories: Rivers, Canals

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