Thorpe Marshes

Thorpe Marshes is a 25-hectare nature reserve east of Norwich in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. This site has a lake called St Andrew's Broad, which hosts waterbirds such as great crested grebes, cormorants, tufted ducks, gadwalls and grey herons.

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
Type: Nature reserve
Description: park in United Kingdom
Also known as: “NWT Thorpe Marshes”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carrow Road and Norwich railway station.

Carrow Road

Stadium

Photo: Mls11, Public domain.

Carrow Road is a football stadium in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and is the home of EFL Championship club Norwich City. The stadium is east of the city, near Norwich railway station and the River Wensum.

Norwich railway station

Railway station

Photo: Bluemoose, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Norwich railway station is the northern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the cathedral city of Norwich, Norfolk.

Norwich Cathedral

Church

Photo: Aleister Crowley, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norwich and Sprowston.

Norwich

Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Norwich, a two-cathedral city, is the capital of the English county of Norfolk, within the larger region of East Anglia. It lies some 185 km NNE of London, and as well as being a convenient base for exploring the Broads and the North Norfolk Coast is also…

Sprowston

Suburb

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Sprowston is a town and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England that forms part of suburban area aound Norwich. It is bounded by Heartsease to the east, Mousehold Heath and the suburb of New Sprowston to the south, Old Catton to the west, and by the open farmland of Beeston St Andrew to the north.

Thorpe Hamlet

Suburb

Photo: Colin, CC BY 2.0.

Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield.

Thorpe Marshes

Categories: park and recreation area
Location: Kirby Bedon, South Norfolk District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.6235° or 52° 37′ 25″ north

Longitude

1.3524° or 1° 21′ 9″ east

Operator

Norfolk Wildlife Trust

Open location code

9F43J9F2+CX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 444523198

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

Wikidata ID

Q55635796

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lime Kiln and Yarmouth Road Cemetery.

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