| Cranberry Rough, Hockham | |
| Aos: | Norfolk |
| Interest: | Biological Geological |
| Area: | 81.1ha |
| Notifydate: | 1984 |
| Map: | Magic Map |
Cranberry Rough is an 81.1abbr=offNaNabbr=off 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]
. Derek . Ratcliffe . A Nature Conservation Review. 2 . 214 . Derek Ratcliffe . Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK . 1977. 0521-21403-3 .