Cribbs Meadow National Nature Reserve

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Overview

The Cribbs Meadow NNR is named after the nearby Cribb’s Lodge, which commemorates the occasion when the last barefist prize fight in England, between Tom Cribb and Tom Molyneux, took place in 1811. The reserve is dominated by Leicestershire chalk/boulder clay pastures, supporting a flora once typical of such calcareous clay pastures in Leicestershire and Rutland. This includes adder’s tongue, agrimony, cowslip, common spotted and green-winged orchid and water avens in spring followed by agrimony, great burnet and yellow rattle later on in the year. Rare butterflies such as the dingy and grizzled yellow skippers and green hairstreak can also be found here, as well as the black chimney sweep moth. Other habitats at Cribbs Meadow include ponds – home to great crested newts and other aquatic wildlife – and a disused railway line bordered by buckthorn, crack willow and dogwood, overtopped by oak and ash trees.

Location

Wymondham

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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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Cribbs Meadow National Nature Reserve

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Cribbs Meadow National Nature Reserve

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Overview

The Cribbs Meadow NNR is named after the nearby Cribb’s Lodge, which commemorates the occasion when the last barefist prize fight in England, between Tom Cribb and Tom Molyneux, took place in 1811. The reserve is dominated by Leicestershire chalk/boulder clay pastures, supporting a flora once typical of such calcareous clay pastures in Leicestershire and Rutland. This includes adder’s tongue, agrimony, cowslip, common spotted and green-winged orchid and water avens in spring followed by agrimony, great burnet and yellow rattle later on in the year. Rare butterflies such as the dingy and grizzled yellow skippers and green hairstreak can also be found here, as well as the black chimney sweep moth. Other habitats at Cribbs Meadow include ponds – home to great crested newts and other aquatic wildlife – and a disused railway line bordered by buckthorn, crack willow and dogwood, overtopped by oak and ash trees.

Location

Wymondham

About the area

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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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