Shibdon Pond Local Nature Reserve – UK Urban Ecology Forum

Awarded site 1999

Citation

Shibdon Pond LNR was given the UK-MAB Urban Wildlife Award for Excellence in 1999.

Discription

Shibdon Pond is one of the few large open water sites between the Tyne and the Tees, and is an important wetland habitat in the area of approximately 20 hectares. It is thought that mining subsidence led to the formation of the pond which is fed by a spring from old mine workings.

The site, designated as both a Site of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Local Nature Reserve (1990), is fringed by extensive reed swamp and supports a large number of wintering wildfowl such as Tufted Duck and Teal.

Contact

Shibdon Pond Local Nature Reserve,
Off Shibdon Road,
Blaydon,
Gateshead,
Tyne & Wear,
NE21 5AF.

Gateshead Council website for Shibdon Pond

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Black Environment Network (BEN) (2012).
Roots and Shoots, Kennington, London (2011).
The Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast (2010).
Meanwhile Wildlife Garden, London (2008).
Landlife: Soil Inversion Works (2008).
The Topsoil Stripping Project, Knowsley (2004).
The Old Rough, Kirkby (2004).
Cwmtalwg, Wales (2004).
Bog Meadows, Belfast (2004).
Nant-y-Pandy / Dingle (2004).
Dalton Bank LNR Huddersfield (2000).
Shibdon Pond LNR, Gateshead (1999).
Lewes Railway Land LNR, Lewes (1998).
Hawthorns Urban Wildlife Centre, Southampton (1998) [external site].
Waldridge Fell Country Park & Cong Burn Wood LNR, Durham (1998).
Parc Natur Penglais LNR, Ceredigion (1997).
Chorlton Water Park, Manchester (1997).
Bradlaugh Fields LNR, Northampton (1997).
Sydenham Hill Wood, London (1997).
Sutton Ecology Centre, London (1997).
The Jupiter Project, Grangemouth (1996).
Project Kingfisher, Birmingham and Solihull (1996).
The Severn Gorge Countryside Trust, Ironbridge (1995).
Saltwells Wood LNR, Dudley (1992).