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East Anglia is a predominantly rural region and contains mainly flat or low-lying and agricultural land. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The area is known for considerable natural beauty. It shares a long North Sea coastline and contains one of the ten national parks in England, The Broads . [ 5 ]
The Fens are a National Character Area, [2] based on their landscape, biodiversity, geodiversity and economic activity. The Fens lie inland of the Wash , and are an area of nearly 1,500 sq mi (3,900 km 2 ) in the south east of Lincolnshire , most of Cambridgeshire (which also includes parts of the old historic county of Huntingdonshire ), and ...
Cromer Ridge in East Anglia is a terminal moraine. Indeed, most of East Anglia is covered with glacial till which has produced its rich loamy soils. This unconsolidated material (it is not stuck tightly together) is very easily eroded hence the rapid rate of retreat of the coastline of this region.
East Anglia’s riches, indeed, are not all natural. The region has contributed a huge amount to British culture and history over the centuries, from Cambridge University and Colman’s Mustard to ...
East Anglia is one of the driest parts of the United Kingdom, with average rainfall ranging from 450 to 750 mm (18 to 30 in). [20] The area receives such low rainfall amounts because low pressure systems and weather fronts from the Atlantic lose a lot of moisture over land (and therefore are usually much weaker) by the time they reach Eastern ...
The total land area of England, excluding inland water, is 130,310 km 2 (50,313 sq mi). [1] Crops and fallow land accounts for 30% of the land area, grasses and rough grazing 36%, other agricultural land 5%, forest and woodland 8%, and urban development 21%. [14]
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək) is a ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and east, Cambridgeshire to the west, and Suffolk to the south. The largest settlement is the city of Norwich.