|
Abbey Farm, Flitcham.
|
Privately
owned.
TF 737265. |
Grazing
marsh with pools. Egyptian Geese, barn owls, Pink-footed geese,
red kite, buzzard and kingfisher. There is a hide. |
|
All Saints’,
Upper Sheringham.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife TrustTG 145419. |
Conservation
area in churchyard. Wall rue, common polypody, meadow saxifrage,
early purple orchid, primroses, bluebells, etc. |
Blakeney
Point.
|
National Nature
Reserve.
TF 997460
|
The
National Trust, managed by English Nature, owns much of the site.
Part of a Ramsar wetland site. Sandbanks, mud flats, saltmarsh,
shallow inlets and bays, A large seal colony, both Common and
Grey seals. Of great importance to overwintering birds and has
internationally important breeding colonies of several species. |
Brancaster
Staithe
|
National
Trust.
Off A149. |
Foreshore
and salt marsh. Good for birds. |
Booton
Common.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TG 112228. 15km north-east of Norwich. |
Fen
and scrub. Marsh helleborine, fragrant orchid, southern marsh
orchid, grass of Parnassus, bog pimpernel, adder's tongue fern,
snipe, woodcock. |
Burnham
Norton.
|
English
Nature.
TF 828441. |
Grazing
marsh with reed-edged ditches. Barn owl, avocet, reed warblers,
etc. |
Church
Lane, Wood Dalling.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TG 083267-072260. |
Roadside
verge not far from Stiffkey. A large population of early purple
orchids, four kinds of sedge, primroses. Best in early May. |
|
Cley Marshes.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TG 054441. 8 miles east of Wells. |
Shingle
bank, scrapes and grazing marsh. The first county trust reserve
(1926). Visitor Centre. A mecca for birdwatchers. At the beginning
of the year wildfowl numbers are high. Spring migrants fill the
reedbeds by Easter. Breeding birds include avocet, bittern, bearded
tit, ringed plover, oyster catcher, garganey, gadwall and shelduck.
The autumn migration is long. Well known for its rarities. |
Dersingham
Bog.
|
English
Nature
TF 668280. |
Part
of the Sandringham Estate, managed by English Nature. Consists
of mire, heath and woodland. This is the largest area of acid
valley mire in East Anglia. It has asphodel, sundew and cranberry;
water beetles and dragonflies. Woodland glades attract redpoll,
crossbill, long-eared owl and sparrowhawk. |
East
Winch Common.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TF 698160. 15km east of King's Lynn on A47. |
Open
pools, woodland. Uncommon plants such as bog pimpernel, water
violet, blunt flowered rush and many southern marsh orchids. Good
for birds such as nuthatch, long tailed tit, nightingale and blackcap. |
|
Foxley Wood.
|
Norfolk Wildlife
Trust. National Nature Reserve (May 2002).TG
049229. 25km north-west of Norwich.
|
The
largest remaining area of ancient woodland in Norfolk. Some very
large oaks. A recorded history that goes back to the Domesday
Book. An abundance of grasses and other plants including the greater
butterfly orchid, common spotted orchid, bugle. Many fungi. Insects
include the white admiral butterfly. |
|
Holkham Hall.
|
Privately
owned TF 892435. |
Parkland
and lake. All three woodpeckers, tree creeper, black-necked grebe,
Egyptian goose, goldeneye. |
Holkham and Holkham Estate
|
English
Nature National Nature.
Reserve.
TF 891448. |
Grazing
marsh, dunes, pines, beach. Marsh harrier, Pink-foot, Brent, White-front,
Greylag geese, Hen harrier, snow bunting, twite, shore larks. |
Holme
Dunes.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust. National Nature Reserve. Norfolk Ornithological
Association.TF 697438. Off the A149 Hunstanton to Wells road. |
Sand
dunes, scrapes. grassland, saltmarsh and foreshore. Very rich
in wildlife: birds, natterjack toads, plants and insects. Shingle
bars important roosting sites for waders, and can hold up to 70,000
knot. Internationally important numbers of bar-tailed godwit and
grey plover. Avocets. |
|
Holt Lowes.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust TG 082376. Off B1149 close to Holt. |
Valley
bog, heath and mire. Notable for its invertebrates including bog
bush cricket and dragonflies including the keeled skimmer. |
Honeypot Wood.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TF 932142. 10km west of East Dereham. |
A
fine piece of ancient woodland, coppiced ash with oak over chalky
bolder clay. It has a rich ground flora. |
Kelling Heath
|
Privately
owned and common land. |
Woodland
heath with gravel pits. Nature trail. |
| Kelling
Quags. |
|
|
|
Morston and Stiffkey
|
Norfolk Ornithological
Association.
National Trust.
TG 096438.
|
Migrants, garganey,
lapwing, ring ouzel.
Morston Marsh
is a maze of creeks, mudflats and long-established saltings
on the coast, and continuing into Stiffkey Marsh. These saltings
support plants such as sea purslane, grasses, sea aster and
sea lavender, with many flowers, butterflies and other insects
along the marsh edges. The tidal creeks around both marshes
attract many wading and overwintering birds such as Brent geese,
teal, shelduck, widgeon and redshank. Egrets sometimes seen.
|
Narborough
Railway Line.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TF 750118. Off A47 8 km south west of Swaffham. |
Chalk
grassland with butterflies. A rich chalk flora with fairy flax,
marjoram, autumn gentian and large thyme. Thirty species of butterfly
including white-letter, green and purple hairstreak. |
Pensthorpe.
. |
Privately
owned.
On A1067 close to Fakenham. |
A
fine collection of endangered waterbirds with some exotics. About
200 acres. Lakes, meadow, woodland |
Ringstead Downs.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TF 705400. 4km east of Hunstanton. |
Unimproved
chalk grassland flora with butterflies. Has rockrose, stemless
thistle, small skipper, Essex skipper, common blue and meadow
brown. |
|
Roydon Common.
|
National Nature
Reserve. Norfolk Wildlife Trust
TF697228. Near
King's Lynn, off the A148.
|
Heath,
bog, woodland. The finest example of lowland valley bog in Britain.Has
bell heather, cross leaved heath, bog orchid, cranberry, marsh
fern, sundews, butterwort and bog asphodel. The assortment of
insects includes the local black darter dragonfly. Breeding birds
include curlew and nightjar. An important roost for raptors in
winter, including hen harrier. |
Salthouse
Heath.
|
Common land.
TG 071425.
|
Nightjar,
nightingale, woodcock, woodlark. |
Salthouse
Marshes.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TG 082443. 7km west of Sheringham. |
Saltmarsh
plants, brackish dykes. Breeding birds include avocet, redshank,
lapwing, meadow pipit, skylark, reed bunting, sedge and reed warblers
and wildfowl. Migrants, wintering birds. Barn owls all year. |
Scolt
Head Island.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust. National Nature Reserve.
TF 465810. 12km east of Hunstanton. |
Sand
dunes, beach, mudflats and saltmarsh. Scolt Head supports nationally
and internationally important numbers of three types of breeding
terns, also wintering wildfowl and waders. |
Sherbourne Road between Dersingham and Fring.
|
Norfolk Wildlife
Trust
TF 707315
– 713322.
|
Roadside
reserve. A long chalk verge, best close to Sherbourne with calamint,
ox-eye daisy, etc. |
Snettisham Bird Reserve.
|
RSPB.
TF 650329. South of Hunstanton, off A149. |
On
the edge of the Wash.The waders on an incoming tide and at high
tide are spectacular. Internationally important numbers of pink-feet. |
Stiffkey
Fen.
|
Privately
owned.
TF 988438. |
View
from public paths. A top rate private reserve. Flooded water meadows.
Waders, avocet, lapwing, barn owl, wigeon, hen harrier. |
Swanton Novers.
|
English
Nature.
TG 010302. |
Honey
buzzards in nesting season, hobby, sparrowhawk, common buzzzard,
kestrel. |
Syderstone
Common.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust.
TF 835316. 10km north-west of Fakenham. |
Heath
with pools. Has a colony of natterjack toads. Also has common
frogs, toads, common lizards, adders, smooth and great crested
newts. Butterflies include gatekeeper, green veined white, ringlet
and green hairstreak. |
Thursford Wood.
.
|
Norfolk
Wildlife Trust
TF 979333. On A148 near Little Snoring. |
River
Stiffkey runs through it. Ancient wood pasture with ponds. Some
of the oldest trees in Norfolk. Rich in fungi, lichens and mosses.
Bluebells, various rhododendrons, woodland birds |
Titchwell
Marsh.
|
RSPB.
TF 750438.
5 miles east of Hunstanton, on A149.
|
A
large variety of birds throughout the year. It has reed beds,
marsh, shallow lagoons and beach. Hides and visitor centre. |
Walsey Hills.
.
|
Norfolk
Ornithologists' Association.
TG 060441. On A149. |
Migration
watchpoint |
Winterton
Dunes.
|
National
Nature Reserve.
TG 490210. North-east coast. |
An
extensive coastal dune system, part of the Winterton-Horsey SSSI,
showing similarities to the dune systems of the Baltic! A wide
range of overwintering and breeding birds, including little terns
on the foreshore. Rough legged buzzards. Natterjack toads. |
