About the reserve

This reserve is a sanctuary area with no public access. It consists of reedmarsh and woodland with two blow wells, which are natural artesian springs caused by water under pressure escaping from the chalk through the overlying boulder clay. Such springs were once numerous in the Lincolnshire Marsh but most have dried up due to the depression of water-tables by increased abstraction.

The wood may once have been an old osier bed. Beyond the wood is an area of wet pasture dominated by sedges.

Historically there was permissive access from Cherry Lane, but this is no longer the case due to the sale of the adjacent house. There is no other legal right of public access and the former visitor route around the reserve is no longer maintained. The nature reserve is now a sanctuary area for wildlife only.

There are accessible blow wells at Tetney Blow Wells nature reserve.