Groups taking part in schemes helping to restore thousands of hectares of English landscape could benefit from a share of a new £15m government award. Farmers and landowers' groups in Norfolk ...

Scientists are calling for radical new approaches to conservation following the first biodiversity audit of its kind. Covering around 1000 km2, Breckland is one of the driest places in England and ...

The work of the 58-strong Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network has become a pilot for Defra's 'landscape recovery' scheme (Image: Richard Evans). Defra is funding a two-year development phase which ...

You are in: Norfolk > In Pictures > 360 panoramas > Breckland > Go Ape Set in the heart of Thetford Forest, this adventure park features high rise wires, assault courses and rope bridges providing ...

Plans to develop 5,000 new homes in 24 locations could be blocked due to threats posed to the habitat of a threatened bird. Natural England said the Breckland area of Norfolk was a key nesting ...

Within Breckland grass heath, where rare wild pansies, yellow kidney vetch and wild thyme grow, the strange, lumpy landscape of Grime’s Graves in Norfolk — or Grim’s Graves as the Anglo-Saxons called ...

Some of the finest farming and sporting estates are to be found on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in Breckland. Newsletter Newsletter; Rushford Hall. ... Sheep and rabbits shared the empty landscape until ...

It is an area of heath,meres and light agricultural land forming a large part of the unique Norfolk- Suffolk Breckland landscape. At the stroke of a War Office pen three villages Stanford, ...