# Saddington Reservoir

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Reservoir in Leicestershire, England

Saddington Reservoir Site of Special Scientific Interest Location of Saddington Reservoir. Location Leicestershire Grid reference SP 663 910[1] Interest Biological Area 19.1 hectares (47 acres)[1] Notification 1999[1] Location map Magic Map

**Saddington Reservoir** is a canal reservoir[2] and 19.1 hectares (47 acres) biological [Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest) south of [Saddington](/source/Saddington) in [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire).[1][3] The reservoir was built between 1793 and 1797 to supply water to the [Grand Union Canal](/source/Grand_Union_Canal).[2]

The reservoir has a range of wetland habitats, such as open water, wet willow woodland and swamp. There are a number of nationally scarce beetles, such as *[Carabus monilis](/source/Carabus_monilis)*, *[Atheta basicornis](/source/Atheta_basicornis)*, *[Eledona agricola](/source/Eledona_agricola)* and *[Gyrophaena lucidula](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gyrophaena_lucidula&action=edit&redlink=1)*.[4]

There is public access to the site.

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-dsv_1-3) ["Designated Sites View: Saddington Reservoir"](https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S2000360&SiteName=sadding&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-canal_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-canal_2-1) ["Saddington"](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5/pp282-287). *British History Online*. Retrieved 18 June 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-map_3-0)** ["Map of Saddington Reservoir"](http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%272000360%27). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Saddington Reservoir citation"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075619/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/2000360.pdf) (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from [the original](http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/2000360.pdf) (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

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v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire Biological Allexton Wood Ashby Canal Bardon Hill Barrow Gravel Pits Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods Benscliffe Wood Blackbrook Reservoir Botcheston Bog Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry Breedon Hill Briery Wood Heronry, Belvoir Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir Burbage Wood and Aston Firs Cave's Inn Pits Charnwood Lodge Chater Valley Coalville Meadows Cotes Grassland Cribb's Lodge Meadows Croft Hill Croft Pasture Croxton Park Debdale Meadow, Muston Dimminsdale Donington Park Eye Brook Reservoir Eye Brook Valley Woods Frisby Marsh Grace Dieu and High Sharpley Grantham Canal Great Bowden Borrowpit Groby Pool and Woods Harby Hill Wood Holly Rock Fields Holwell Mouth Kendall's Meadow Kilby - Foxton Canal King Lud's Entrenchments and The Drift Launde Big Wood Leighfield Forest Lockington Marshes Loughborough Meadows Lount Meadows Misterton Marshes Muston Meadows Narborough Bog Newton Burgoland Marshes Oakley Wood Owston Woods Pasture and Asplin Woods River Eye River Mease Roecliffe Manor Lawns Saddington Reservoir Sheepy Fields Sheet Hedges Wood Stanford Park Stonesby Quarry Swithland Wood and The Brand Terrace Hills Pasture Twenty Acre Piece Ulverscroft Valley Wymondham Rough Geological Bardon Hill Quarry Beacon Hill, Hangingstone and Outwoods Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir Breedon Cloud Wood and Quarry Buddon Wood and Swithland Reservoir Charnwood Lodge Cliffe Hill Quarry Croft and Huncote Quarry Dimminsdale Enderby Warren Quarry Gipsy Lane Pit Grace Dieu and High Sharpley Ives Head Main Quarry, Mountsorrel Newhurst Quarry One Barrow Plantation Shepshed Cutting Sproxton Quarry Tilton Cutting

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