Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve

Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve
Thorpe Marsh is located in South Yorkshire
Thorpe Marsh
Thorpe Marsh
Location in South Yorkshire
TypeNature reserve
LocationDoncaster, South Yorkshire, England
OS gridSE 594088
Coordinates53°34′44″N 1°06′58″W / 53.579°N 1.116°W / 53.579; -1.116
Area77 hectares (190 acres)
Opened16 May 1980
Managed byYorkshire Wildlife Trust
HabitatsMarshland, Woodland

Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve is a 77-hectare (190-acre) nature reserve located south-west of Thorpe in Balne, north of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. The reserve is managed and maintained by a team of volunteers under the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust[1] as well as Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.[2]

The reserve shares its name with the coal-fired power station which occupied the adjacent land prior to its closure in 1994[3] and the demolition of its remaining cooling towers in 2012.[4][5] The site is on an area of lowland susceptible to flooding (floodplain)[6][7] by the River Don, thus creating an area of marshland on which the reserve sits (hence the appended "marsh").

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  3. ^ "Thorpe Marsh Power Station". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Hansard – House of Commons. 16 June 1993. Archived from the original on 1 March 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Thorpe Marsh Final Two Cooling Towers Demoliton 19th August 2012". YouTube – nobagreqrd. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
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  6. ^ "Flood Warnings in Doncaster". Doncaster Free Press. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
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