Irthlingborough put-in
Irthlingborough put-in lies on the River Nene where it flows through the Nene Wetlands, a chain of flooded gravel pits and wet meadow on the floodplain between Northampton and Peterborough. The fourteenth-century Irthlingborough Bridge, listed on the National Heritage List for England, crosses the river close by.
These wetlands link four adjoining Wildlife Trust reserves — Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows, Ditchford Lakes and Meadows, Higham Ferrers Pits and Wilson's Pits — and lie within the Upper Nene Valley Gravel Pits Site of Special Scientific Interest and Special Protection Area. The Wildlife Trust records that twenty thousand waterbirds use the wetlands each year, for breeding, over winter or as a stop on migration.
The river here is a managed navigation rather than a free-flowing one: the Environment Agency operates 38 locks between Northampton and Peterborough, most fitted with pointing doors at the upstream end and a vertical guillotine gate at the lower end, each requiring a navigation key to operate.
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