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The River Yox is a
Available online
retrieved 2016-06-16. The Yox was originally fordable at Yoxford where a modern road bridge allows the A12 to cross the river.Yoxford Conservation Area Appraisal Supplementary Planning Document
''Suffolk Coastal District Council'', June 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-01. The river valley is largely drained and used as grassland with some arable use at Sibton. Some peat deposits are present. The valley has a narrow floodplain with water meadows and has largely been drained using a system of dykes.Valley meadows & fens
Suffolk Landscape Character Typology, ''Suffolk County Council''. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
The River Yox is a river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in the English county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
of Suffolk
Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...
. It flows from the west of Peasenhall through Sibton and Yoxford where it becomes the Minsmere River.Storey N R (2013) ''The Little Book of Suffolk'', History pressAvailable online
retrieved 2016-06-16. The Yox was originally fordable at Yoxford where a modern road bridge allows the A12 to cross the river.Yoxford Conservation Area Appraisal Supplementary Planning Document
''Suffolk Coastal District Council'', June 2010. Retrieved 2012-11-01. The river valley is largely drained and used as grassland with some arable use at Sibton. Some peat deposits are present. The valley has a narrow floodplain with water meadows and has largely been drained using a system of dykes.Valley meadows & fens
Suffolk Landscape Character Typology, ''Suffolk County Council''. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
Wildlife
As of 2018, the river at Yoxford was seen to containstickleback
The sticklebacks are a family of ray-finned fishes, the Gasterosteidae which have a Holarctic distribution in fresh, brackish and marine waters. They were thought to be related to the pipefish and seahorses but are now thought to be more close ...
s, brown trout
The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus ''Salmo'', endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally ...
, frogs, newts, grass snakes, and otters. Eels were seen in 2017. Kingfishers have not been observed since 2017, nor have any water voles. Hitherto there had been a large population of water voles along a large stretch of the river, but regular predation by domestic cats has been observed. As of 2020, water voles and kingfishers have been regularly seen on a stretch of the river behind Yoxford High Street.
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