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Feeding Ducks

Feeding Pier
The Feeding Pier

Foraging Swan
Foraging Swan

The pond in 1956
The Pool in 1956

Pond information sign
Information Board

Pond Safari Guide
Pond inhabitants 

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Long Itchington Village Pond.
There has been a Pond at Long Itchington for over a hundred years.

Village Pond Information
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In Anglo-Saxon times there were 200 million ponds in Britain. 
In the old days every village had a pond, somewhere for ducks to forage, horses to be washed and children to swim.
By the end of the 19th Century that figure had fallen to 2 million.
In  2006 Long Itchington pond  was completely renovated to prevent it becoming shallow and almost drying up in the summer.
It was dredged and relined, sides were reinforced and a feeding pier and island was created.
Pond drainage and water supplies were unblocked and now the Pond is once more a healthy and interesting focal point for the village.
The pond also provides a fascinating and educational place for local children to study 
biology and ecology.
You can find out more about village ponds here.
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