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Hickling Broad is a 600-hectare (1,500-acre) nature reserve 4 km south-east of Stalham, north-east of Norwich in Norfolk.It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. [1] It is a National Nature Reserve [2] and part of the Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest [3] and Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [4] It is in the Norfolk ...
Hickling is a village [2] and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 22 miles south-east of Cromer , 20.3 miles north-east of Norwich and 137 miles north-east of London . It lies 3 miles east of the Broadlands town of Stalham .
Hickling Broad, from Jerrold's 1910 Norwich and the Broads. The Broads were created when huge peat excavations were flooded during the Middle Ages. In the 14th century Norfolk was the most densely populated and most intensively farmed region in England. The land was predominantly arable, much more so than in previous centuries.
Barton Broad [12] 164 hectares (410 acres) Norwich: YES NCR, [13] NNR, [14] Ramsar, [7] SAC, [8] SPA [9] SSSI [15] The Broad was created in the Middle Ages by digging for peat and the River Ant was later diverted through it, which allowed navigation. It has diverse aquatic plants and fish, and the surrounding fens have nationally rare plants ...
Drainage windmills on the Norfolk Broads. The Broads Authority is the agency which has statutory responsibility for the Broads. The Nature Conservancy Council (now Natural England), pressed for a special authority to manage the Broads which had been neglected for a long time, and in 1978 the forerunner to the present-day Broads Authority was established by the Countryside Commission (now also ...
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Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes is a 1,185.9-hectare (2,930-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. [1] [2] Part of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, [3] and it is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [4]