{{Short description|Nature reserve in Sleaford, England}} {{infobox park | name = Mareham Pastures | image = | image_caption = | type = Local Nature Reserve | grid_ref_UK = TF 071 447 | location = Sleaford, Lincolnshire | area = {{cvt|11|hectare}} | manager = Lincolnshire County Council and Friends of Mareham Pastures }} '''Mareham Pastures''' is an 11-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Sleaford, a market town and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. It is owned by Lincolnshire County Council and managed jointly by Lincolnshire County Council and the Friends of Mareham Pastures.<ref name=LNR>{{cite web|url=https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteLNRDetail.aspx?SiteCode=L1123066&SiteName=&countyCode=27&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea= |title= Mareham Pastures|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England |accessdate =28 January 2018}}</ref> The reserve consists of wildflower meadows, new woodland, hedges and open grassland, providing a good habitat for butterflies and potentially barn owls; it is located westwards off Mareham Lane and is bounded to the north and north-west by residential developments at Quarrington and by farmland to the south; it is adjacent to a disused recycling centre (Sleaford Household Waste Recycling Centre), situated to its east.<ref name=LNR/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=Ref_CODE%3D%271123066%27 |title= Magic Map|publisher=Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |accessdate= 28 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="friends">[http://www.marehampastures.co.uk/location.html "Location"], ''Friends Of Mareham Pastures, Sleaford, Lincolnshire''. Retrieved 28 January 2018.</ref> The site can be accessed by the public on foot via Bullock Pastures Lane, which begins at Sleaford Cricket Ground off London Road; visitors travelling by car can park next to the former recycling centre off Mareham Lane and gain access that way.<ref name=LNR/><ref name="friends"/>
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== External links == * [http://www.marehampastures.co.uk/ Friends of Mareham Pastures].
{{Local Nature Reserves in Lincolnshire}} Category:Local nature reserves in Lincolnshire Category:North Kesteven District