Havenside is an 18.91-hectare Local Nature Reserve in Fishtoft, a civil parish in the Boston borough of Lincolnshire.^[1] It is a thin piece of land along the eastern edge of The Haven (a stretch of the River Witham), running southwards from the built-up area around Skirbeck (within Fishtoft's parish boundaries but separate from the village of Fishtoft) to a point just north of the junction where Hobhole Drain merges with The Haven; the reserve is mostly bounded to the east by fields, but is backed onto by residential and industrial buildings at Skirbeck and is adjacent to a sewerage works further south. It contains a mixture of rough grassland with scrub and brambles, cattle-grazed meadows, seasonal ponds, estuary, and mud flats. It also contains the Pilgrim Fathers' Memorial on the site (formerly called Scotia Creek) where a group of puritans were arrested in 1607 while trying to escape religious persecution.^[1][2] The reserve's main entrance is near Finn Forest's works on the industrial estate off Fishtoft Road, Skirbeck. Another car park is off Scalp Road in Fishtoft village.^[1][2]

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