Rack Marsh

#4549 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Rack Marsh is a 4-hectare nature reserve in Bagnor, on the north-western outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. It is part of Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain, which is a Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, and a Nature Conservation Review site. It is also part of the Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain Special Area of Conservation. ()

Elevation: 266 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 51°25'13"N, 1°21'4"W

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Rack Marsh – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Donnington Grove, Donnington Castle, Parkway Shopping Newbury, Speen.

0.4 miSE
Golf, Gothic Revival architecture
Donnington Grove, Newbury and Thatcham
11 min walk • Donnington Grove is a Strawberry Hill Gothic mansion, now a hotel and country club, and associated Golf Course at Donnington in the civil parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington, near Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. It is overlooked by Donnington Castle.
0.6 miE
Ruined medieval castle built in 1386
Donnington Castle, Newbury and Thatcham
15 min walk • Donnington Castle is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.
1.6 miSE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Parkway Shopping Newbury, Newbury and Thatcham
42 min walk • Parkway Newbury is a retail and residential development in Newbury, Berkshire that opened on 27 October 2011. It includes 475,000 sq ft of retail and restaurant accommodation and Marks & Spencer, 578 shopper car parking spaces, 113 residents parking spaces.
0.8 miSE
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Speen, Newbury and Thatcham
20 min walk • Speen is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. Centred 2 miles north west of the largest town in the district, Newbury, Speen has clustered settlements, the largest of which is Speen village and the others are buffered from the town by the A34 road and named Bagnor, Stockcross, Woodspeen and Marsh Benham.
1.2 miNE
Park
Snelsmore Common, Newbury and Thatcham
31 min walk • Snelsmore Common is a 104-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Newbury in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
~510 ftNW
Concerts and shows, Theater
Watermill, Newbury and Thatcham
3 min walk • The Watermill Theatre is a repertory theatre in Bagnor, Berkshire. It opened in 1967 in Bagnor Mill, a converted watermill on the River Lambourn. As a producing house, the theatre has produced works that have subsequently moved on to the West End, including the 2004 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.