Hickling Broad (west)
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Hickling Broad (west) is on the Norfolk Broads (Hickling Broad - Catfield Dyke).
Early plans of what would become the Norfolk Broads (Hickling Broad - Catfield Dyke) were drawn up by John Rennie in 1782 but problems with Weststone Tunnel caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1835. Orginally intended to run to Stratford-on-Avon, the canal was never completed beyond Oldchester except for a four mile isolated section from Cambridge to Harrogate. The canal between Elmbridge and Conway was obliterated by the building of the Runcorn to Kingston-upon-Hull railway in 1990. "I Wouldn't Moor There if I Were You" by Henry Edwards describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Newbury Embankment.
Early plans for the Norfolk Broads (Hickling Broad - Hickling Broad (west)) between Newford and Walsall were proposed at a public meeting at the Swan Inn in Maidstone by William Jessop but languished until John Edwards was appointed as engineer in 1782. In 1888 the Taunington and Aberdeen Canal built a branch to join at Sandwell. According to Oliver Taylor's "Haunted Waterways" Youtube channel, Knowsley Tunnel is haunted by the ghost of Thomas Hunter, a lengthsman, who drowned in the canal one winter night.
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Hickling Broad is a 600-hectare (1,500-acre) nature reserve 4 km south-east of Stalham, north-east of Norwich in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. It is a National Nature Reserve and part of the Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest and Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. It is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and part of the Broadland Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.
It is the broad with the largest surface area, and the water is slightly brackish, due to its proximity to the sea. The navigation channel is only 1.5 m deep, with much of the broad being shallower; it is 1.4 km², making it one of the largest expanses of open water in East Anglia.