Great Eastern Pingo Trail
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| Great Eastern Pingo Trail | |
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 Interactive map of Great Eastern Pingo Trail | |
| Type | Local Nature Reserve |
| Location | Great Hockham, Norfolk |
| OS grid | TL 929 934 |
| Area | 4.2 hectares (10 acres) |
Great Eastern Pingo Trail is 9.2 kilometres (5.7 miles) long footpath along a disused railway line north of Thetford in Norfolk.[1][2] It is a 4.2-hectare (10-acre) Local Nature Reserve,[3][4] and it crosses three Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Thompson Water, Carr and Common, Breckland Forest and Cranberry Rough, Hockham.[5][6][7] It also crosses Thompson Common, which is a nature reserve managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust[8] and is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.[9] It further crosses Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation[10] and Breckland Special Protection Area.[11]
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]
