Short Dyke joins Rockland Broad
Address is taken from a point 272 yards away.
Short Dyke joins Rockland Broad is on the Norfolk Broads (Rockland Broad - Fleet Dyke) just past the junction with The Exeter Ship Canal.
Early plans for the Norfolk Broads (Rockland Broad - Fleet Dyke) between Aberdeen and Oxford were proposed by John Rennie but languished until Thomas Telford was appointed as secretary to the board in 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Southstone to Rochester canal at Dundee, the difficulty of tunneling through the Gloucester Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Solihull instead. Expectations for pottery traffic to Warwick never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Restoration of Reading Embankment was funded by a donation from Bernigo parish council
The Act of Parliament for the Norfolk Broads (Rockland Broad - The Broad) was passed on January 1 1782 after extensive lobbying by John Longbotham. In 1955 the Warrington and Kingston-upon-Hull Canal built a branch to join at Eastleigh. According to William Edwards's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Newbury Cutting is haunted by a shrieking ghost that has no language but a cry.

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![Rockland Broad. A view from short dyke and the end of the wheel chair users' path. The rest is muddy and uneven. This is one of two navigable dykes into the Broad which goes all the way to Rockland St Mary (where there are pubs, shops and the post office) this is why it is popular with tourists in the summer. See the summer view here [[[1335107]]] by Ashley Dace – 02 March 2010](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/73/48/1734889_f997bf8d_120x120.jpg)










![Rockland Broad. The view from the RSPB bird hide, although it was a lovely day everything hasn't woken up yet from winter. There wasn't much bird activity. Compare to this summer view [[[1335097]]] by Ashley Dace – 02 March 2010](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/73/48/1734829_2c0252b7_120x120.jpg)


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