Status Of Footpath Along Fleet Dyke

[marshman]

Vaughan - not sure that bit on the south side of the river has ever been arable - right from Upton to S walsham water levels are now being raised again by the conservationists. Good work!!

[Vaughan]

12 minutes ago, marshman said:

Vaughan - not sure that bit on the south side of the river has ever been arable

It certainly was when the scheme first started - you came down the Thurne to be confronted with hundreds of acres of oilseed rape. Quite a culture shock, in that corner of the Broads!

I suppose this sort of thing just goes to show that the Broads are not natural. They are Man-made and evolve according to what Man wants to do next. So "conservation" must be in the eye of the beholder.

Thank God we all managed to stop them building a barrier across the Yarmouth Haven, back in those days. That would really have changed the Broads!