Cranberry Rough is an biological and geological

Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...

in the parish of

Hockham Hockham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 620 in 252 households at the 2001 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland. The district's ...

, east of

Attleborough Attleborough is a market town and civil parish located on the A11 between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England. The parish is in the district of Breckland and has an area of . The 2001 Census recorded the town as having a population of 9 ...

in Norfolk. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and the

Great Eastern Pingo Trail Great Eastern Pingo Trail is a long footpath along a disused railway line north of Thetford in Norfolk. It is a Local Nature Reserve, and it crosses three Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Thompson Water, Carr and Common, Breckland Forest ...

, which is a Local Nature Reserve, goes through the site. Part of it is a Geological Conservation Review site, and it is part of the

Breckland Breckland in Norfolk and Suffolk is a 39,433 hectare Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. The SPA partly overlaps the 7,544 hectare Breckland Special Area of Conservation. As a la ...

Special Protection Area. 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. 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. Its biogenic sediments contain a late- Devensian & Holocene pollen record.

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{{SSSIs Norfolk Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk Special Protection Areas in England Nature Conservation Review sites Geological Conservation Review sites