Train passing Damgate Wood
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Train passing Damgate Wood
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 31 Dec 2015
Acle railway station is just a few hundred yards down the line from Damgate Wood. Damgate Wood is a mature alder carr which is traversed by a small stream fed by natural springs and water courses west of the village of Acle and known as Coleman’s Drain. 2000 years ago it was a small river, probably tidal, and the marshland formed an estuary named by the Romans as ‘Gariensis’. A water mill is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having been located here. In 1995, volunteers from the Acle Lands Trust and the surrounding area created access to Damgate Wood by building a boardwalk and bridge. The wood forms part of the Burlingham Woodland Walks.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.635149
Longitude
1.549275