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	Halvergate Marshes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Halvergate Marshes were an (The wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix) estuary in (An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) Roman times.
		The Marshes are dotted with (Click link for more info and facts about windpump) windpumps, many without sails or even caps.
		The village of (Click link for more info and facts about Halvergate) Halvergate is to the west of the Marshes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/halvergate_marshes.htm (275 words)

	Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus
		Walking the ancient driftway through Halvergate marshes, we paused by High's derelict drainage mill to watch the aerial manoeuvres of a mixed flight of golden plovers and lapwing.
		Alongside the nearby Fleet dyke brick foundations could be discerned around a prolific growth of nettles all that remained of a marsh homestead.
		The earliest of these exciting invasions was during the 1964/5 winter when an estimated total of 100 owls spent the period between November and January on the marshes.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/short-eared-owl.htm (638 words)

	Discover the Heart of the Broads
		The swings, skittles, aviary and monkey house, hillside strolls and riverside picnicking were all the rage.
		Today it’s happy hunting for the marsh harrier thanks to enlightened conservation policies that have reversed years of damage done by persecution, poor land management and over use of pesticides.
		One of the voices calling for the protection of the marshes was Andrew Lees, who later went on to become campaigns director of Friends of the Earth.
	www.wherrymansway.net /heritagehighlights.html (1918 words)

	halvergate \| Accomodation And Weekend Breaks
		Halvergate hotel accommodation or Halvergate bed and breakfast in...
		The Halvergate marshes are the largest area of grazing marshland in England, and there various walks thorugh these wetlands, passing Stracey Arms with its
		Halvergate red brick towermill was 6 storeys high and was built in 1866.
	www.lacon-arms.co.uk /halvergate.html (276 words)

	Norfolk Countryside
		Halvergate is 2 miles south of the A47 between Acle and Great Yarmouth.
		The route is mainly around the Halvergate marshes that have a bounty of wildlife.
		Halvergate itself is an attractive village with a mixture of thatched and tiled houses.(5 miles, about 2½ hours walking)
	www.countrysideaccess.norfolk.gov.uk /walk-26.asp?id=26 (270 words)

	Halvergate Marshes - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Halvergate Marshes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Halvergate Marshes - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Halvergate Marshes.
		Here you will find more informations about Halvergate Marshes.
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	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Halvergate-Marshes.html (330 words)

	Norwich Information - Norfolk Broads
		Keeping the marshes well maintained is important in preserving the 'habitat' of lots of fen plants and animals, like the rare swallowtail butterfly which is found nowhere else in Britain.
		The fens were too wet, so areas were drained to provide grazing marshes - open fields divided by an intricate system of dykes, such as you find at Halvergate Marshes.
		Wind pumps were built to drain the marshes by pumping the water along the dykes and back up into the rivers.
	www.norwich1.com /broads.htm (773 words)

	RSPB East Anglia Region Media Release 8 October 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Footdrains are shallow ditches across grazing marshes that originally took water off the marshes to make them more suitable for grazing.
		Under the conservation management of marshes, they are also valuable for bringing water onto marshes, so long as water levels in main ditches are high enough.
		The RSPB's Berney Marshes nature reserve is 328 hectares (810 acres) of grazing marshes near Berney Mill, part of the Halvergate Marshes and adjacent to the estuary of Breydon Water.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /peter.wright827/media_release_20031008.html (631 words)

	Halvergate Marshes Hotels. Hotels near Halvergate Marshes - Accommodation UK
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		From a cheap Halvergate Marshes hotel, to 4 and 5 star Halvergate Marshes hotels with special offers, you are sure to find the best Halvergate Marshes hotel Accommodation for you.
		Take a Picture tour of Halvergate Marshes, and please come back after your visit to submit your own.
	www.picturesofengland.com /England/Norfolk/Great_Yarmouth/Halvergate_Marshes/hotels1/ratinglow (963 words)

	Halvergate Marshes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the 1980s, further drainingwas untertaken to convert the area to arable farming, especially oil seed rape whose cultivation was encouraged by the then European Community (now the European Union).
		Amongthe best preserved are Stracey Arms Mill on the River Bure, Lockgate Mill,Mutton's Mill, High's Mill, Cadge's Mill, Kerrison's Level Mill and Runham Swim Mill.
		Part of the area is RSPB Berney Marshes, a reserve of the Royal Society for theProtection of Birds, adjacent to Berney Arms village and Berney Arms windpump.
	www.therfcc.org /halvergate-marshes-111915.html (267 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Power plan for old mills
		Cadges Mill on the River Yare is one of 15 around Halvergate Marshes which need restoration.
		The mill, which stopped working more than 60 years ago, could be in for a new lease of life - transformed into the country's first windmill to generate electricity.
		The idea is still in its infancy and the cost of such a project or how much power the mills could produce has not yet been established.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/2647257.stm (257 words)

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	Halvergate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Halvergate is a village north of Reedham, Norfolk, England, halfway between the Rivers Bure and Yare, within The Broads National Park.
		This United Kingdom location article is a stub.
		This page was last modified 18:19, 20 Dec 2004.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Halvergate (113 words)

	Guardian \| Heaven on earth
		The inscription on the stone describes him as the saviour of Halvergate, while environmental legend depicted him lying down, at one point, in front of the tractor that was trying to plough up the marshes.
		The move in the 1980s to reduce these ancient pastures to a cereal monoculture was driven by the absurd production subsidies of the Common Agricultural Policy.
		He would also relish the vision of a red kite in the Norfolk heavens, a bird down to five pairs by 1905 but currently with a population of several thousands, thanks to a visionary captive-release programme.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4920033-103500,00.html (273 words)

	Broadland
		The distinctive open landscape comprises a complex and interlinked mosaic of wetland habitats including open water, reedbeds, carr woodland, grazing marsh and fen meadow, forming one of the finest marshland complexes in the UK.
		The differing types of management of the vegetation for reed, sedge and marsh hay, coupled with variations in hydrology and substrate, support an extremely diverse range of plant communities.
		The area is of international importance for a variety of wintering and breeding raptors and waterbirds associated with extensive lowland marshes.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-2022-theme=textonly (535 words)

	Norwich Information - Norfolk Broads Nature Reserves
		Suffolk Broads Wildlife Centre is a one hundred and twenty acre miniature version of the Broads made up of reedbeds, marshes, fens, swampy woodland and mini broads with walks across grazing marshes.
		It is well known for its rare birds, waders and large flocks of wildfowl and is the oldest wildlife trust nature reserve in the country.
		The marshes are reached by path from Oulton Church.
	www.norwich1.com /broads_reserves.htm (1545 words)

	berney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The walk from Halvergate along part of The Weaver's Way or the footpath from Wickhampton are both approximately 3 miles.
		Berney Arms Windmill is probably the tallest marsh windmill in Norfolk.
		Built around 1865 for grinding clinker, a constituent of cement it was later used for drainage of the marshes until 1949.
	www.notn.co.uk /visit/berney (407 words)

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		Up to 153 on Halvergate Marshes in March, a herd of 58 including a Black Swan flew east out to sea at Great Yarmouth on March 8th and 9 offshore at Waxham on April 3rd.
		Maximum of 5 at Berney Marshes on April 23rd, otherwise 1-2 at Titchwell, Cley, Hickling Broad, Breydon Water and Welney.
		One on Arnold’s Marsh at Cley on May 30th was the only one reported.
	www.birdguides.com /birdnews/printarticle.asp?a=425 (4500 words)

	The Broads Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Burgh Castle, ruins of a Roman Fort with views over Breydon Water and the Halvergate Marshes.
		A bid has recently been successful for funding to restore two mills and a steam engine shed in the Halvergate Marshes area.
		Berney Marshes; RSPB - Includes 365 ha (902 acres) of the Halvergate Marshes and much of Breydon Water (which it adjoins).
	www.broads-society.org.uk /placestovisit.html (969 words)

	GENUKI: Norfolk: Genealogy: Towns and Parishes: Halvergate: White's 1845 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HALVERGATE, a parish and well-built village, 7 miles W. of Yarmouth, has 495 souls, and 2675A.
		Though now distant about 3 miles S. of the Bure, and 4 miles N. of the Yare, Halvergate was a sea port, before the land was formed on which Yarmouth is built.
		They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages.
	www.origins.org.uk /genuki/NFK/places/h/halvergate/white1845.shtml (308 words)

	Berney Arms - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		There is no road connection, except by walking for 3 1/2 miles from Halvergate.
		The pump was in use until 1951 and has since become a major tourist attraction, bringing life and prosperity to this remotest of Broadland locations.
		Berney Marshes is a nature reserve in the care of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and part of the Halvergate Marshes.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/be/Berney_Arms.html (380 words)

	The future of farming in Norfolk
		Landowner Larry Brooks and the RSPB have won a national Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) Award from English Nature for their management of an internationally important wildlife habitat, Halvergate Marshes near Yarmouth.
		Barry Brooks who has owned marshland in the area for 15 years has controlled the water level with two dams linked to freshwater underground springs, which has provided ideal habitats for marshland plants and animals.
		In the 1980s large areas were drained for arable production which raised concerns over damage to wildlife habitats.
	www.edp24.co.uk /Farming/asp/Landowner.asp (219 words)

	RSPB Berney Marshes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		RSPB Berney Marshes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 15:05, 26 Aug 2004.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about RSPB Berney Marshes contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/RSPB_Berney_Marshes (124 words)

	Broadland District Council, UK - Halvergate
		In recent times the RSPB acquired wide tracts of the marsh to provide a haven for bird life.
		On one side of the village sign it shows the Domesday Book names of Halfraite and Tunestalle and the other side with Halvergate and its hamlet Tunstall, the names they are known by today.
		Within the village the 15th century church of St Peter and St Paul stands behind a row of lime trees which was restored in 1857.
	www.broadland.gov.uk /broadland/tourism.nsf/pages/tvhalvergate.html (314 words)

	river bure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After Aylsham Lock and Burgh Bridge, the Bure passes through Buxton Lamas, Coltishall, Belaugh, Wroxham, Horning, Ludham Bridge, past St.
		Benet's Abbey, though Oby, Acle, Stokesby, along the northern border of the Halvergate Marshes, through Mautby, Runham and Great Yarmouth where it meets Breydon Water and flows into the sea at Gorleston.
		It has two tributaries, the River Thurne and the River Ant.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /river_bure.html (223 words)

	The Broads National Park biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) status for parts of the Halvergate Marshes
		The Romans first exploited the rich peat beds of the area for fuel, and in the Middle Ages the local monasteries began to excavate the "turbaries" (peat diggings) as a business, selling fuel to Norwich and Yarmouth.
		Despite the construction of windpumps and dykes, the flooding continued and resulted in the typical Broads landscape of today, with its reedbeds, grazing marshes and wet woodland.
	the-broads-national-park.biography.ms (629 words)

	Wymondham High School - Departments - Geography - News (Summer 1998)
		The whole of Year 7 has had a full day out on the Norfolk Coast exploring the settlements of Blakeney and Cley and look at a variety of environmental issues and practicing certain fieldwork techniques.
		Some Year 8 and 9 classes have to the Norfolk Broads – Ranworth, Halvergate Marshes and Wickhampton to cover the National curriculum theme of the Environment and enquiring into the issues linked to this unique landscape.
		Looking at how the land was used and sketching the marshes showed me how the two different places, Blakeney and Cley, are different from each other.
	www.wymondhamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk /Geography/Summer1998.htm (1340 words)

	Norfolk Countryside
		From Halvergate village the Weavers' Way crosses the large expanse of Halvergate Marshes.
		These marshes are managed as traditional grazing meadows and are of international importance.
		The route across the marshes can often be quite wet so suitable footwear is recommended.
	www.countrysideaccess.norfolk.gov.uk /walk-71g.asp (243 words)

	Railway Station
		The station at Berney Arms must be one of the remotest in England, standing as it does in the middle of the often windswept Halvergate marshes and two miles from any road access.
		Of course you could arrive by train, ensuring that you've informed the driver beforehand as stops are only made on request.
		This sign was erected by the Regional Railways business unit of British Rail prior to BR's privatisation and the franchise passing to Anglia Railways.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /abbarton/berneyarms/station/station.htm (701 words)

	Press release 26-07-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Damgate Marshes SSSI is a candidate Special Area of Conservation (cSAC).
		The southern part of Halvergate Marshes, Damgate Marshes and much of marshland along the upland margin are designated a Ramsar site.
		Excluding the Halvergate junction, the accident record for Acle to Great Yarmouth stands around the national average for a single carriageway ‘A’ road.
	www.cnp.org.uk /press_release_26-07-04.htm (966 words)

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