CS Lewis Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in

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, a suburb of

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. It is managed by the

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. The reserve, which was formerly owned by author

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, has a flooded clay pit, with many aquatic plants, toads, dragonflies and damselflies. There is also a steeply sloping wood with large boulders.

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