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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.
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. [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]
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 ...
It lies next to the Norfolk Broads (Barton Broad to its south-west, and Hickling Broad to its south-east), about 16 miles north-east of Norwich on the A149 road, adjacent to the slightly larger market town of Stalham. Sutton has a public house and hotel, infant school, garden centre, village hall and a parish church.
Hickling Broad Nature Reserve at Hickling has a waymarked walk. Horsey Windpump has waymarked walks. Old Wood at Sheringham has a waymarked circular walk. Oxburgh Hall has a 'Woodland Explorer' trail. Peter Scott walk, 17 kilometre walk from Sutton Bridge (where it joins the Nene Way), to the ferry crossing on the River Great Ouse at King's Lynn.
For a quarter of a century, Turner lived and worked for part of each year, [5] including two winters, [2] at Hickling Broad in Norfolk. She stayed mainly on a houseboat of her own design, which she named after the water rail (Rallus aquaticus), the first bird that she photographed in the Norfolk Broads. The flat-bottomed boat was transported to ...