This important reserve contains tidal sand and mudflats, salt and freshwater marshes and sand dunes.

The largest remaining fragment of the once extensive heathlands of Scotton Common.

A small damp meadow with fine old boundary hedges.

Meadows that are set amid the small hedged fields around Goulceby.

Nature reserve and country park consisting of steep-sided valleys fretted by streams.

Small meadows with rich grassland and hedgerow flora.

Road verges with a rich limestone flora.

The site is surrounded by large hedges on a gently sloping site with boulder clay soils, typical of the Middle Marsh.

Old grassland which is subject to winter flooding and a small wet woodland.

Old parkland and pasture of a type now rare in the Fens.