The Mere in Stow Bedon

The Mere in Stow Bedon in Breckland is a body of water. The Mere also exists in South Norfolk and North Norfolk.

Nature
body of water
Website
https://backtobeing.co.uk/

Tourist information offices

  • Stow Bedon & Breckles Parish Council – approx. 1,1 km.
  • The Pingo Trail. Pingos are shallow basins formed by glacial processes at the end of the last Ice Age… The word “pingo” is Inuit in origin and means ‘small hill’. – approx. 1,1 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 1,1 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 1,1 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 1,1 km.
  • NWT Thompson Common. Thompson Common is famous for its pingos - a series of 400 shallow pools thought to be have been formed at the end of the last Ice Age. – approx. 1,1 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 1,2 km.
  • Wayland Walks in Norfolk’s Breckland Countryside – approx. 1,2 km.
  • Stow Bedon Common. Stow Bedon Fuel Allotment, part of Stow Bedon Common, is home to over 30 natural ponds known as pingos, created over 12,000 years ago by ground-ice thawing during the last Ice Age, leaving behing shallow depressions which filled with water. – approx. 1,2 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 2,0 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 2,0 km.
  • Crossing Keeper's Cottage. History of crossing keeper’s cottage, built around 1870 at time of Swaffham to Thetford railway line opening, before closing 1965 and becoming derelict until dangerous and demolishing. – approx. 2,1 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 2,7 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 2,7 km.

Farm shops

  • Wayside Farm Shop – approx. 950 m.
  • Lodge Farm – approx. 1,8 km.
  • The Whews – approx. 2,0 km.
  • Breckles Grange Farm – approx. 2,2 km.
  • Watering Farm – approx. 3,7 km.

Bus stops

  • Mere Road, adj – approx. 450 m.
  • Mere Road, opp – approx. 450 m.

Artwork

  • Stow Bedon Village Sign (metal) – approx. 500 m.

Benches

  • Crossing Keeper's Cottage – approx. 2,1 km.