Great Eastern Pingo Trail
Great Eastern Pingo Trail is a footpath five and a half miles long along a disused railway line north of Thetford in Norfolk.[1][2] It also forms a linear local nature reserve of just over ten acres.[3]
The footpath it crosses three Sites of Special Scientific Interest; 'Thompson Water, Carr and Common', 'Breckland Forest' and 'Cranberry Rough'.[4][5][6] It also crosses Thompson Common, which is a nature reserve managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust[7] and is a Nature Conservation Review site.[8] It further crosses Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation[9] and Breckland Special Protection Area.[10]
This site has around 300 shallow pools which formed when the ice within 'pingos' melted at the end of the last ice age. There is a mosaic of habitats with a large lake, Thompson Water, at the western end.[3][1]
Location
- Location map: 52°30’14"N, 0°50’28"E
- Streetmap: TL929934
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Pingo Trail Walk". Explore Norfolk. https://www.explorenorfolkuk.co.uk/pingo-trail.html. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ↑ "Great Eastern Pingo Trail". AA. http://www.theaa.com/walks/great-eastern-pingo-trail-420788. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eastern Pingo Trail: Local Nature Reserves
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Thompson Water, Carr and Common
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Breckland Forest
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Cranberry Rough, Hockham
- ↑ "Thompson Common". Norfolk Wildlife Trust. https://www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-in-norfolk/nature-reserves/reserves/thompson-common. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ↑ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 138–39. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
- ↑ "Designated Sites View: Norfolk Valley Fens". Natural England. https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteGeneralDetail.aspx?SiteCode=UK0012892&SiteName=&countyCode=29&responsiblePerson=&unitId=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ↑ "Designated Sites View: Breckland". Natural England. https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteGeneralDetail.aspx?SiteCode=UK9009201&SiteName=&countyCode=29&responsiblePerson=&unitId=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea=. Retrieved 25 May 2018.