Castleford

Fairburn Ings Nature Reserve
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Fairburn Ings is a 700-acre wetland site that lies just a few miles to the east of Leeds, near Castleford. It is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The Lakes (or Ings) provide a wetland habitat for many different species of Animals, Plants, and Insects but it is perhaps best known for its Birdlife. The Ings are a product of the coal mining that took place in this area in the first half of the last century. The abandoned hollows from where the coal had been removed quickly filled with floodwater, and within only a few years this floodwater[...]