Key to the maintenance of this diversity is the management of habitats, a human intervention that has been happening for centuries. At the edge of the fen, the Cottage Museum depicts how life may have been for workers on the fen before it became a nature reserve

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The century old habitat is made up of many different species. The Saw sedge Cladium mariscus predominates but other plants also thrive. These include Marsh bedstraw Galium palustre and Bindweed Convolvulus arvensis. Invertebrate species found here include snails and beetles. 

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