Great Eastern Pingo Trail

Great Eastern Pingo Trail
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TypeLocal Nature Reserve
LocationNorth Walsham, Norfolk
OS gridTL 929 934
Area4.2 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 pingos, shallow pools formed when ice 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]

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  5. ^ "Designated Sites View: Thompson Water, Carr and Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
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  11. ^ "Designated Sites View: Breckland". Special Protection Area. Natural England. Retrieved 25 May 2018.