Fens Pools

Fens Pools

Infobox SSSI


name=Fens Pools
aos=West Midlands
interest=Biological
gridref=gbmappingsmall|SO920886
area=37.6 hectares
notifydate=1989

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Fens Pools (gbmapping|SO920886) is a 37.6 hectare (92.9 acre) biological site of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands. The site was notified in 1989 [ [http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1003757.pdf Fens Pools "English Nature". Retrieved on 2008-05-26 ] ] under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and is currently managed by the Country Trust.

History

The pools, which consist of Grove Pool, Middle Pool and Fens Pool, where constructed as reservoirs by the Stourbridge Canal Company, which was created by an Act of Parliament passed on 2 April 1776 [ [http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/sdoc.php?wpage=PNRC0601#PNRC594 Joseph Priestley, (1831) "Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain"] ] The canal opened in 1779, [ [http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/WW-page.php?wpage=STRB Jim Shead's Waterways History: Stourbridge Canal] ] and the reservoirs fed into a navigable branch which joined the canal's main line at Leys Junction, close to the top of the Stourbridge Flight. This is a series of 16 locks through which the level of the canal falls by 145 feet (44.2m), down to Wordsley Junction, where the Stourbridge Town branch joins the main line.Nicholson Waterways Guide, Volume 2 (2006), Harper Collins Publishing Ltd, ISBN 0-00-721110-4] The reservoirs formed the main source of water supply for these locks, until it was supplemented by water leaving the Dudley Canal with which the Stourbridge Canal made an end-on junction in 1792.

Wildlife

The pools are a large expanse of open water, and form an important habitat for over-wintering and migrating birds. Shovelers and gadwalls can regularly be seen, while bitterns and red-crested grebes have also been observed. Some of the surrounding pools are also the home of the largest population of great crested newts in the West Midlands. [ [http://www.dudley.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/tourism-travel/out-and-about/dudleys-parks-and-nature-reserves/buckpool-and-fens-pools-nature-reserve- Dudley MB Council Parks and Nature Reserves] ]

ee also

*List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands

References


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