Breckland Forest
Breckland Forest extends over Norfolk and Suffolk, between Swaffham in Norfolk and Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.
In this area, 44,790 acres in several separate areas have been designated a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.[1] It is part of the Breckland Special Protection Area also. It contains two Geological Conservation Review sites, Beeches Pit, Icklingham and High Lodge.[2][3] Barton Mills Valley is a Local Nature Reserve in the south-west corner of the site.
Woodlarks and nightjars breed on this site in internationally important numbers. There are also several nationally rare vascular plants and invertebrates on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Geological sites provide evidence of the environmental and human history of East Anglia during the Middle Pleistocene.[1]
Major landowners that own land within Breckland Forest SSSI include the Ministry of Defence, the Forestry Commission and the Crown Estate.
Location
- Location map: 52°24’-0"N, 0°42’0"E
- Streetmap: TL822872
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SSSI listing and designation for Breckland Forest
- ↑ "Beeches Pit, Icklingham (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=2261.
- ↑ "High Lodge (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=4174&gcr=601.