2009

TL9295 : Footpath improvement, Pingo Trail

taken 15 years ago, near to Thompson, Norfolk, England

Footpath improvement, Pingo Trail
Footpath improvement, Pingo Trail
A boardwalk has recently been added over a particularly muddy stretch of this track. Compare TL9295 : Footbridge over marshy ground.

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Great Eastern Pingo Trail

The Great Eastern Pingo Trail is a flat 8-mile circular walk near the villages of Thompson and Stow Bedon. LinkExternal link

Pingos are formed in permafrost environments. Those in this area date from the end of the last ice age (9,000 years ago) and are some of the best-preserved in the country. When subsurface water freezes, it creates a lens of ice, raising the soil in a dome shape. Soil is washed off the top of this formation and accumulates around the base; when the ice eventually melts, the pingo collapses and a shallow crater is left. LinkExternal link

The Great Eastern part of the trail's name comes from its use of a section of trackbed of the former Thetford-Watton line, built by the Thetford and Watton Railway Company in 1869 and closed under the Beeching cuts in 1964. The car park for the trail is on the site of Stow Bedon station. Some information on this branch can be found at LinkExternal link

The walk passes through a variety of habitats including commons at Stow Bedon and Thompson LinkExternal link , heaths at Stow/Breckles and Hockham, a basin mire at Cranberry Rough LinkExternal link , the artificial Thompson Water (1845), and carr woodland. Part of it runs along the Peddars Way LinkExternal link , and beside the Stanford military training area LinkExternal link .


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Category: Boardwalk
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TL9295, 18 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Katy Walters   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 March, 2009   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 13 February, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 929 956 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:31.4737N 0:50.5303E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 929 956
View Direction
West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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