Heigham Holmes (NT)
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Overview
Heigham Holmes is a 500-acre nature reserve; a unique and internationally important site, with reed-fringed flood banks, open water, grazing marsh, scrub and wet woodland, linked by a maze of dykes and pools characteristic of the Norfolk broadland landscape. Look out for marsh harriers, barn owls, bittern and crane, which all call the reserve home, along with wading birds such as lapwing and redshank. The National Trust is working with the tenant farmer to manage the site, restoring intensively managed farmland back to grassland, as well as re-instating water levels to create an internationally important wetland habitat. Public access is restricted to ranger-guided walks and an annual open day.
About the area
The North Norfolk Coast is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and probably the finest of its kind in Europe. Here you’ll find a string of quaint villages and small towns – Holkham, Wells-next-the-Sea and Cley next the Sea are 21st-century favourites, while Sheringham and Cromer are classic examples of a good old-fashioned seaside resort where grand Victorian hotels look out to sea.
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