Latest geosites work in NW Norfolk

Post date: Jun 7, 2013 3:00:32 PM

Site surveying update

Lower Cretaceous Leziate Beds below Dersingham Beds, exposed at Wolferton. The site is currently not open to the public.

Photo Tim Holt-Wilson

Eighteen geodiversity sites in Kings' Lynn & West Norfolk Borough have been surveyed by Tim Holt-Wilson, thanks to funding by the Norfolk Coast Partnership and NBIS. This continues our programme of work on a ground-truthing survey of sites & features listed in the Norfolk Geodiversity Audit. Most of the sites are on private land, so we are most grateful to the land owners for granting access.

4,000 year-old peat beds exposed on the foreshore at Holme-Next-The-Sea.

Photo Tim Holt-Wilson

Ground-truthing work involves examining and photographing the extent, condition and location of geo-features at a site, finding out about access and ownership, and examining site extent/boundaries.

  • Brancaster, Downs Pit (Thieves Hole)

  • Brancaster, Long Plantation Pit

  • Dersingham Common

  • Dersingham Sand Pit SSSI

  • Heacham, Round O Wood Esker

  • Sedgeford / Heacham, Heacham Valley Kame Terrace

  • Old Hunstanton, Barrett Ringstead Chalk Pit

  • Old Hunstanton, Ringstead Downs Meltwater Channel

  • Ringstead Chalk Pit

  • Ringstead Common

  • Sandringham, Wolferton Railway Cuttings North & South

  • Sedgeford, Church Farm Pit

  • Sedgeford, Lady Well

  • Snettisham Carstone Quarries

  • Snettisham Common Pit

  • Snettisham, Locke Farm Railway Cutting

  • Titchwell Chalk Pit

  • Holme-Next-The-Sea Foreshore

Upper Cretaceous chalk exposed at Ringstead Chalk Pit. The site is publicly accessible as part of a parish woodland garden project. Photo Tim Holt-Wilson

The results of the survey will

  1. help the Norfolk Coast Partnership understand more about the geodiversity features of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

  2. help landowners and managers understand more about features of interest on their land, and provide feedback on ways to conserve and enhance them;

  3. inform the Norfolk County Geodiversity Sites Group about features which might make good designated Local Sites.