[8] The site is managed by Natural England[9] and owned by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

One of the first nature reserves to be created in England, Woodwalton Fen was bought by the banker and entomologist Charles Rothschild in 1910.

[10] Rothschild intended to present the site to the National Trust, but they declined it, and it was kept initially as a private nature reserve.

The flood water entering Woodwalton Fen has high silt and nutrient loads.

[15] The Cambridge Geological Society designed the Fen Edge Trail that follows the five-metre contour, which 3,000 years ago was near the maritime coast of England.