South Norfolk and High Suffolk Clay, Eastern Arable
Author(s): Jeremy Lake
This Character Area occupies a large part of central East Anglia, stretching from just below Norwich in the north down to the River Gipping in the south. This is a clay plateau landscape predominantly under arable cultivation. It is bound to the south-west by the town of Bury St Edmunds and to the north-east by Beccles. It is a sparsely settled and intensively farmed landscape; 98% of the Character Area is open countryside with 90% of that land under cultivation. Less than 2% of the Character Area is urban or classified as non-agricultural, while 3% is wooded. A very small part of this area falls within the Broads National Park.
- Report Number:
- 87/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 14
- Keywords:
- Landscape Farmstead Historic
