Paradise Local Nature Reserve
Riverside wet woodland of willow and alder around a small marsh, crossed by flood-proof boardwalks.
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This guide to Paradise Local Nature Reserve in Cambridge follows the students who swam in this bend of the Cam, from a King's College undergraduate in the fifteen hundreds to an eighteenth-century antiquary who learned to swim here and a friend of Lord Byron in eighteen eleven. Along the way it reads the wet woodland itself: willows left to split and regrow, a rare metallic beetle, and a butterbur stand on record for centuries. Best heard on the boardwalk, looking down at the water.
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