The Norfolk Broads are an important wetland nature reserve, albeit largely a man made product created by peat digging over the centuries. The following account of a shoot on Hickling Broad in 1934 from the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalist Society may appear alarming.

Nowadays a little over 500,000 pinkfeet geese are thought to overwinter in the UK. Certainly where I live in Northumberland I see my fair share from flocks of a few dozen to many hundreds flying over at times. However, this was not always the case and Kenzie Thorpe shared the following figures in May 1964

The Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech was erected in 1880 to celebrate Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) who campaigned against the slave trade. However, it should be considered that the area was suffering something of a recession/depression especially in agriculture at the time it was erected and prompted this comment from Spalding press