Cranberry Rough, Hockham – Wikipedia

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]

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]

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Coordinates: 52°30′18″N 0°50′42″E / 52.505°N 0.845°E / 52.505; 0.845