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Facts:

4 ha. of chalky valley mire, carr and grassland

Designation: SSSI, SAC

Map ref: TF 981 121 (OS Landranger 132)

Public Transport: The Swaffham - Dereham bus stops within a short walk of the nature reserve

NWT Scarning Fen

A unique small nature reserve with wonderful flora. It is very sensitive to trampling so please tread carefully.

What to look for: Spring/summer bog pimpernel, butterwort, marsh orchid, marsh helleborine, quaking grass, marsh pennywort, black bog-rush. Small red damselfly. Autumn/winter mosses and liverworts.

 

 

 

 

Facilities: Information board.

Directions: NWT Scarning Fen is just outside East Dereham. Travel towards Swaffham on the A47. Pass Draytonhall Lane on the right and take the immediate left turn. Turn left again onto Fen Road and follow around to the nature reserve. Parking is on the roadside.

Access: Entrance is over a stile next to the road.

Did you know? Local people grazed horses here until the 1960s.

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