Brancaster Manor is a saltmarsh owned by the

National Trust The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is a separate and ...

near

Brancaster Brancaster is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Brancaster comprises Brancaster itself, together with Brancaster Staithe and Burnham Deepdale. The three villages form a more or ...

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

covering 810 ha (2,000 acres).Ryan (1969) p 165 It was originally purchased by the Brancaster Memorial Trust in 1964,Rodgers ''et al'' (2010 ) p.167 and transferred to the National Trust in 1967. It is leased to Brancaster Staithe Fishermen's Society.Paston-Williams (2006) p. 80 It was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1968, and in 1986 it was subsumed into the

North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest The North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI) is an area of European importance for wildlife in Norfolk, England. It comprises 7,700 ha (19,027 acres) of the county's north coast from just west of Holme-next-the- ...

. The larger area is now additionally protected through Natura 2000,

Special Protection Area A Special Protection Area (SPA) is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. Under the Directive, Member States of the European Union (EU) have a duty to safeguard the habitats of migratory birds and certa ...

(SPA) and

Ramsar Ramsar may refer to: * Places so named: ** Ramsar, Mazandaran, city in Iran ** Ramsar, Rajasthan, village in India * Eponyms of the Iranian city: ** Ramsar Convention concerning wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran ** Ramsar site, wetland listed in ...

listings, and is part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Retrieved 8 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.

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