Cranberry Rough, Hockham

Cranberry Rough is an 81.1-hectare (200-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Hockham, east of Attleborough in Norfolk.[1][2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2,[3] and the Great Eastern Pingo Trail, which is a Local Nature Reserve, goes through the site. Part of it is a Geological Conservation Review site,[4] and it is part of the Breckland Special Protection Area.[5]

Cranberry Rough, Hockham
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of SearchNorfolk
Grid referenceTL 932 935[1]
InterestBiological
Geological
Area81.1 hectares (200 acres)[1]
Notification1984[1]
Location mapMagic Map

The area is the site of a former lake known as Hockham Mere, which was drained and dried up by the middle of the 18th century.[6] It has swamp woodland, grassland, tall fen and a network of ditches and pools, with a diverse range of wetland plants and insects, especially butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies. Large areas are covered with sphagnum mosses.[7] Its biogenic sediments contain a late-Devensian & Holocene pollen record.[8]

References
  1. "Designated Sites View: Cranberry Rough, Hockham". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  2. "Map of Cranberry Rough, Hockham". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  3. Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 214. ISBN 0521-21403-3.
  4. "Hockham Mere (Quaternary of East Anglia)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  5. "Designated Sites View: Breckland". Special Protection Areass. Natural England. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  6. "Cranberry Rough". Breaking New Ground. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  7. "Cranberry Rough, Hockham citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  8. Bennett, K. D. (November 1983). "Devensian Late-Glacial and Flandrian Vegetational History at Hockham Mere, Norfolk, England. I. Pollen Percentages and Concentrations". The New Phytologist. 95 (3): 457–487. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1983.tb03512.x. JSTOR 2434313.

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