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| Fishery Name: Barnwell Lakes, Barnwell Country Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Address: Barnwell Road, Oundle, Northamptonshire, PE8 5PB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Entrance Grid Ref: TL 03716 87320
Car Park Grid Ref: TL 03673 87274 |
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| Sat Nav: PE8 5PB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Phone Numbers: 01832 273435 or 03001 265931 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Email Address: [email protected] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: The waters at Barnwell Country Park include two former gravel pit lakes and the Backwater, a stream like side channel of the River Nene. The park has around 5.9 hectares of willow fringed lakes and 1km of riverbank where fishing is permitted in North Lake (2.48 hectares) and Mill Lake (1.43 hectares).
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Rules: Getting a ticket Tickets must be purchased before you start fishing and are available at any time on a selfserve basis from the Rangers' office near the park entrance. Car parking charges apply at all times, please ensure you purchase and display a valid ticket for the duration of your stay. Day ticket prices ?Day ticket type Period Price Day only ticket Dawn to dusk £3 ?Concession day ticket for senior citizens and Blue Badge holders Dawn to dusk ?£2 Under 16 years old Dawn to dusk Free ?Season and winter ticket prices A limited number of all season tickets (including car parking pass) are available providing 12 months of fishing on both lakes and the river for day and night fishing. ?Season ticket type Period Price Season ticket 12 months (36 hour maximum stay) £75 Concession season ticket for senior citizens and Blue Badge holders 12 months (36 hour maximum stay) ?£65 ?Winter ticket 1 October to 31 March £50 Concession winter ticket 1 October to 31 March ?£40 Standard carp fishing techniques such as boilie fishing and stalking can both be successful, although floater fishing is not so easy owing to the numerous and regularly fed duck population. The river backwater provides opportunities for both trotting the glides and trundling a ledger rig into the holes for the wily chub. |
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Facilities:
The park, with its accessibility and facilities, provides a good accessible venue for novices, with a reasonable stock of smaller fish. It is also a good venue for disabled anglers with three wheelchair accessible swims on Mill Lake and two on North Lake, with a further 4 fishing platforms on North Lake. The council: maintains the right to ban any fishing method or bait it deems to be causing harm to fish or wildlifereserves the right to use any area of the lakes for its own purposes (such as pond dipping or conservation tasks) and to reserve the areas of bankmaintains the right to suspend all fishing and access to the park or certain areas of the park in extreme circumstances such as a risk to public safety |
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