30 days wild - day 23 Walk to Quy Fen

We parked in a carpark off the Clayhithe Road and walked down a bridleway with farmland on either side to Quy Fen. Quy Fen is grass land with some water bodies. It spans about 73 acres and is the remains of a much large area of common land between the villages of Horningsea, Quy and Fen Ditton. As was the custom since Saxon times where less arable land lay outside villages, it was shared by the villages and used for for cattle grazing, hay cutting, wood cutting and fen digging.lies to the east of the village and is open to public access, via footpaths and a track from the layby, just to the north of the village. The fen has a number of water filled pits which were excavated in the 19th century for coprolite, (dinosaur dung) and today act as host to a variety of wild life. There was lots of bird song, damsel flies and other insects!