The Entrance Park

Arriving at Cambourne from the A428, visitors pass through the Entrance Park. In time the newly planted Northern woods will screen this area from the main road and visitors will emerge from these woods into open, traditionally English 18th Century style parkland.

The rolling landscape is intended to disguise the dual carriageway. Groups of parkland trees direct views and frame a series of vistas. The entrance lakes are designed by Randall Thorp to maximise reflections and create a physical boundary to the built edge of the Settlement.

The entrance lakes have been stocked with over 1,000 fish rescued from redundant ponds elsewhere on site.

The Eco Park

Centred on the existing Oaks Wood and Poplar Plantation, the Eco Park provides a space for recreation and environmental interpretation.

A range of habitats once common in this area are being recreated including:

• Hedgerows, hedge banks and hedge margins 
• Grasslands, ridge and furrow meadows and arable headlands 
• Woodlands, carr and scrub 
• Lakes, ponds, reedbeds, marshes and streams 
• An arboretum of Cambridgeshire trees and shrubs 
• An orchard of old Cambridgeshire fruit trees

The Country Park

The western Valley has been transformed into a 70 acre Country Park for Cambourne.

The ancient track of ‘Crow Dean’ has been retained within the Park and links Cambourne to the village of Caxton to the south.

Two large lakes, new woodlands, open grassland, meadows and paddocks are linked together and to the rest of Cambourne by a network of footpaths, bridleways and cycleways.

Working closely with ecologists ESL, Randall Thorp have ensured that they not only provide a wealth of recreational opportunities for the people of Cambourne but also create a wealth of new habitats for Cambourne’s wildlife.