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Swangey Fen, Attleborough

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk
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Swangey Fen, Attleborough is a 48.4-hectare (120-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Attleborough in Norfolk. It is part of the Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation.Part of this site is spring fed fen with diverse flora, including grass of Parnassus, marsh helleborine and several rare mosses. The fen is surrounded by wet woodland and grassland.Much of this site is private but there is public access to an area formerly managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust off Fen Street

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Swangey Fen, Attleborough
Breckland District Great Ellingham

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Breckland District, Great Ellingham
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Eccles Road railway station
Eccles Road railway station

Eccles Road railway station is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the villages of Eccles, Quidenham and Wilby in Norfolk. The line runs between Cambridge in the west and Norwich in the east. Eccles Road is situated between Harling Road and Attleborough, 104 miles 36 chains (168.1 km) from London Liverpool Street via Ely. The station is managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates most of the services calling at the station. Some East Midlands Railway also stop at Eccles Road. The station takes its name from being outside of the now abandoned original village of Eccles although the church Eccles St. Mary still stands and is one of 124 original round-tower churches in Norfolk. A new settlement, also called Eccles, has developed around the station. The station is situated in the civil parish of Quidenham, about 2 miles (3 km) north of that village, and 1 mile (1.5 km) north-east of Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit. The station is unstaffed and has two platforms, adjacent to a level crossing. Wooden level crossing gates used to be opened and closed manually by a signaller in the local signal box, which is dated 1883. However, in 2012 the signal box was closed and the crossing was renewed with automatic barriers controlled from Cambridge. The redundant signal box stands across the road from the westbound (Cambridge) platform, and was expected to be demolished when the barriers were replaced in 2017.

Great Ellingham
Great Ellingham

Great Ellingham is a village and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk. The village lies 2.5 miles north-west of Attleborough, 2 miles south-east of its sister village of Little Ellingham and 12 miles by road south from Dereham. The civil parish also includes the hamlets of Bow Street and Stalland Common, and covers an area of 1,114 hectares (2,750 acres) with a population of 1108 at the 2001 census, though the district's 2007 estimate suggests that this may have risen to 1165, then decreasing to a measured population of 1,132 in 470 households at the 2011 Census. The site of Great Ellingham has been inhabited since pre-historic times and is documented in the Domesday book of 1086. Its name comes from the Old English for 'The homestead of Ella's or Eli's people'. The medieval period provides the oldest surviving, mainly 14th century, building of St James the Great's Church, in the Benefice of Great Ellingham. This "attractive chequered flintwork and battlemented west tower [is] topped by a lead spire" was restored in the early 20th century. The spire can be viewed from some distance away as the village is approached on the Attleborough road. The village has a number of early thatched properties, though no longer serving their original function, such as the 15th century probable hall house divided into two cottages but now one dwelling and shop Ye Olde Thatche Shoppe. The Crown public house, one of six pubs that used to be in the village, was once called The Bell and dates from the mid-18th century.