Cottage Bottom Fields

Cottage Bottom Fields is a 14.1 hectare local nature reserve in Dunstable in Bedfordshire. It is owned and managed by Central Bedfordshire Council.^[1]^[2]

The site is chalk grassland on a steep slope, and the wide variety of flowers include what may be the largest population of pignut in the country. Birds include Northern wheatears, European stonechat, whinchat and ring ouzels.^[1]

There is access from Dunstable Road.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Cottage Bottom Fields". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 18 February 2013. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^ "Map of Cottage Bottom Fields". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

v t e Local nature reserves in Bedfordshire
Bedford	Bromham Lake Browns Wood Fenlake Meadows Harrold-Odell Country Park Hill Rise Mowsbury Hill Park Wood Putnoe Wood
Central Bedfordshire	Cooper's Hill Cottage Bottom Fields Flitton Moor Flitwick Wood Henlow Common and Langford Meadows Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow The Riddy Stotfold Mill Meadows Totternhoe Knolls
Luton	Galley and Warden Hills