About Cuttle Brook

What is Cuttle Brook ?
With several different habitats in one easy-to-stroll site, it's a unique piece of 'semi-wild' countryside free from roads but just a few minutes walk from Thame Town Centre - a delightful 'green lung' for the area.
Meandering right through the reserve is a tributary of the River Thame called the 'Cuttle Brook', which springs to life in the Chilterns. The whole area now offers superb, open river-meadow views and a network of paths through about thirty acres of mixed meadows, young woodland, sedge and reed beds, hedges, trees, riverbanks and scrubland.

Walk through the reserve
Teasels are great food for a variety of birds found at Cuttle Brook What is the History ?
Used over centuries for grazing (especially on the way to Thame's traditional Cattle Market) there are also signs of the medieval 'open field' ploughing system, with its 'ridge and furrow' humps and bumps. the site was purchased by Thame Town Council in 1978. To protect the nationally scarce flood-plain of wet grasslands, the area became designated as a Local Nature Reserve in 1995 and is now managed for nature conservation, much of the work being done by 'Cuttle Brook Conservation Volunteers'.
Always Changing !
Every visit to Cuttle Brook is an adventure. Each season offering its own mystery and variety - the first flowers of Spring, the meadows in a Summer haze, the colours in the Autumn, the frosts of Winter.

With regular improvements to increase the richness of the wildlife habitats for the future, it's a fascinating learning environment for children, students and all of us.

We hope you enjoy your visit and come back again. 		Always changing