Little Paxton
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Little Paxton in Cambridgeshire, England is a village near Great Paxton north of St Neots. Until the 1970s it was a minor village and the church was under threat of closure. The building of a housing estate and a junior school revived its fortunes and the establishment of the Paxton Pits Nature Reserve around part of the nearby gravel pits has brought visitors to the village.
The nature reserve features lakes, woodland and part of the Ouse floodplain and is home to large numbers of cormorants and many summer visitors such as nightingales and a large number of passerine birds. Grebes, ducks and geese have colonised the lakes.
Gravel extraction remains an important industry in and around the village, there is also a fencing company. On the edge of the village, a derelict industrial site has been redeveloped to provide more riverside housing, extending the village again so that it is now very nearly part of the St Neots urban area.
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