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Castle Acre Common

UK Site of Special Scientific Interest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ55099494 ↗
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Castle Acre Common is a 17.8-hectare (44-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England.

This unimproved grazing marsh on the banks of the River Nar has diverse grassland habitats, and the marshy conditions provide nesting sites for several wetland bird species. There are acidic flushes where springs emerge from sands in the bottom of the valley.

There is access from the Nar Valley Way.

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This entry incorporates text from “Castle Acre Common” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.