Glenfield, Optimus Point Nature Area
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
From Sept 2019 there should be a bus stopping on Optimus Way (No 13 from Leicester through Glenfield).
There are cycleways from Ratby & Groby and from the heart of Glenfield through Fishley Belt and a permissive path to the area up the Optimus Greenway and a right of way through the southern part of the area from Braunstone Frith and onto the Clanfelde Hills.
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This nature reserve was created primarily for Great Crested Newts. The site has several ponds as well as areas of meadow grassland and is surrounded by mature hedges and trees bordering onto the former Western Golf Course along its eastern side. There are mown paths through it to join a right of way which takes you across Ratby Lane into Clanfelde Hills and beyond.
It can be accessed by a bridge over the stream and ditch running down the Optimus Greenway which itself then meets the cycleways from Ratby & Groby.
The several ponds on this site support a number of invertebrate species of interest, such as the uncommon back-swimmer Notonecta obliqua.
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