The Pleasure Boat Inn at Hickling
Norfolk Wildlife Trust purchased the Pleasure Boat Inn pub and surrounding land in 2023, helping to create new ways to introduce people to the nature, landscape and wildlife of Hickling.
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Pleasure Boat Hickling boat trips
Explore the wildlife of the beautiful Hickling Broad on Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s guided wildlife boat trips from the Pleasure Boat Hickling pub.
Wildlife boat trips
Explore the wildlife of the beautiful Norfolk Broads on Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s guided wildlife boat trips from NWT Hickling Broad and Marshes, NWT Ranworth Broad and Marshes and the Pleasure Boat Hickling pub.
Beadlet anemone
Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
Hickling Broad boat trips
Explore the wildlife of the beautiful Norfolk Broads on Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s guided wildlife boat trips at NWT Hickling Broad and Marshes.
Ranworth Broad boat trips
Explore the wildlife of the beautiful Norfolk Broads on Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s guided wildlife boat trips at NWT Ranworth Broad and Marshes.
The Pleasure Boat
Owned by NWT and run by Rick and Felicity Malt, the Pleasure Boat Inn pub sits on the edge of Hickling Broad, offering the perfect spot to take a well-earned rest, enjoy some refreshments and take in spectacular views of Norfolk’s largest broad.
We've purchased a popular Hickling pub!
We have announced that we are the new owners of the Pleasure Boat Inn at Hickling Staithe.
The Pleasure Boat Inn opens to the public
The Pleasure Boat Inn pub, now owned by Norfolk Wildlife Trust and located at NWT Hickling Broad and Marshes, opens to the public today.
Rare spoonbill breeding success at Hickling
We are celebrating the sight of fledgling spoonbills at Hickling Broad and Marshes – the first known breeding success in the Norfolk Broads for around 400 years.
Rare bird breeding success tops the bill for Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Spoonbill have bred successfully for the second year running at NWT Hickling Broad and Marshes, providing hope of establishing a future breeding colony of these distinctive rare birds.
First ospreys breed in East Anglia for centuries
We can confirm that an osprey pair has successfully hatched at least two chicks at NWT Ranworth Broad and Marshes, making the nature reserve the first known site in the region to make a home for…