Blue Lagoon Local Nature Reserve

Blue Lagoon LNR is located in Bletchley, south Milton Keynes. It is managed by Milton Keynes Borough Council with help provided with the support from English Nature.  Blue Lagoon is designated as a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) and is the only one in the borough of
Milton Keynes.  Blue Lagoon has also been designated as a Biological Notification Site (BNS) and a Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Site.  The site is 26.3 ha. 

                   

The reserve has shallow ponds, a 60ft deep lagoon, scrubland, grassland and woodland offering a wide range of diverse habitats.  Within these areas are footpaths and boardwalks guiding visitors around the reserve.  The lagoon is also used by a local scuba diving club where they explore lorries that have been put in the lake.

        

The site of the reserve was previously occupied by brickworks and to the west of the reserve a landfill site has been created.  What is now the lagoon is where the clay pits were and on the landfill site these pits are now being filled in with rubbish.  Bletchley was a good location for these brickworks as it sits on the Oxford clay belt.  There was plenty of business for these brickworks, the first one opened in 1890, saw the development of Milton Keynes and provided the bricks until the Blue Lagoon site closed in 1970.  The final brickworks closed in 1990 which is now where the landfill site is located.