Narborough Railway Line

Narborough Railway Line
Notification		1989^[1]
Location map	Magic Map

Narborough Railway Line or Narborough Railway Embankment is a 7.9-hectare (20-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of King's Lynn in Norfolk.^[1]^[2] It is a former railway embankment which is now a nature reserve managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.^[3] It is 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of Narborough, on the A47 going east from King's Lynn to Swaffham,^[4]^[5] and it can be entered by a car park west of the reserve.^[5]^[6] It was documented in 1847 as an area with much chalk and flints.^[7]

Geology

The area is made of

borrow pit next to an embankment.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Railway line

The

Lynn, then expanded to Narborough and to Swaffham.^[11]^[12]

The railway was first used by the post office to deliver post around Norfolk.

stationmaster, Rod Lock, who at the time was a relief stationmaster for the whole of Norfolk. He had to deal with the severe 1958 blizzards, which buried some of the trains.^[8]

Wildlife

At Narborough Railway Line there are 26 species of butterfly recorded and there are a large quantity of birds in the summer months.

blackcap, chiffchaff and common whitethroat. In the summer there are turtle doves and in the winter there are blackbirds, fieldfare and redwing.^[4]^[6]

In the earlier half of the year (spring and summer), these are often popular sights:

purging buckthorns are popular.^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Designated Sites View: Narborough Railway Embankment". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
^ "Map of Narborough Railway Embankment". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Reserves Map". Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Narborough Railway Line". AccessBS. 2011. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "NWT Narborough Railway Line". Visit East of England. May 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Norborough Railway Line". Norfolk Wildlife Trust. 1 April 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
^ Artizan Club (1847). The Artizan. Simpkin, Marshall, and Company.
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ISBN 978-0-7153-1687-0
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^ Tuck, Henry (1847). The Railway Shareholder's Manual; or, Practical Guide to all the Railways in the World. Effingham Wilson. p. 130.
^ Oppitz 2002, p. 17.
^ ^a ^b Artizan Club (1847). The Artizan. Simpkin, Marshall, and Company. p. 206.
^ Mihill Slaughter (1819). Railway intelligence, compiled by M. Slaughter. p. 1. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
^ E.R. Kelly (1865). The Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk. pp. 511–. Retrieved 22 May 2012.

52°40′04″N 00°35′56″E / 52.66778°N 0.59889°E / 52.66778; 0.59889

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Geological	Bawsey Beeston Cliffs Bilsey Hill Blackborough End Pit Bramerton Pits Breckland Forest Briton's Lane Gravel Pit Broome Heath Pit Caistor St Edmund Chalk Pit Catton Grove Chalk Pit Cranberry Rough, Hockham Dersingham Bog East Runton Cliffs East Walton and Adcock's Common Glandford (Hurdle Lane) Glandford (Letheringsett Road) Gooderstone Warren Grime's Graves Grimston Warren Pit Happisburgh Cliffs Heacham Brick Pit Holkham Brick Pit Hunstanton Cliffs Hunstanton Park Esker Leet Hill, Kirby Cane Morston Cliff Mundesley Cliffs North Norfolk Coast Overstrand Cliffs Setchey Sidestrand and Trimingham Cliffs St James' Pit Stanford Training Area Wells Chalk Pit West Runton Cliffs Weybourne Cliffs Weybourne Town Pit Wiggenhall St Germans Winterton-Horsey Dunes Wiveton Downs Wretton

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Breckland	East Wretham Heath Foxley Wood Hoe Rough Honeypot Wood Lolly Moor Narborough Railway Line New Buckenham Common Scarning Fen Sparham Pools Thompson Common Wayland Wood Weeting Heath
Broadland	Booton Common Cockshoot Broad Ranworth Broad Thorpe Marshes Upton Broad and Marshes
Great Yarmouth	Martham Broad
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	East Winch Common Holme Dunes Ringstead Downs Roydon Common and Grimston Warren Syderstone Common
North Norfolk	Alderfen Broad Barton Broad Cley Marshes Hickling Broad Pigneys Wood Salthouse Marshes Thursford Wood
South Norfolk	Hethel Old Thorn Lower Wood, Ashwellthorpe