{"id":55319,"date":"2025-08-09T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55319\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:34:07","slug":"holkham-named-one-of-uks-most-beautiful-nature-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55319\/","title":{"rendered":"Holkham named one of UK&#8217;s most beautiful nature reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Holkham has been included in a\u00a0round-up of the nation&#8217;s 15 best-looking nature reserves\u00a0which was\u00a0published recently in The Telegraph.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It appeared alongside some very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25209836.holkham-north-norfolk-well-worth-visit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">well-known locations<\/a> including the Derbyshire Dales in the Peak District and Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The article\u00a0said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25355521.holkham-named-best-beach-dogs-no-seasonal-ban\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holkham<\/a> was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25209628.holkham-beach-named-uks-beautiful-time\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top spot<\/a> to find\u00a0wintering wildfowl.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25363801.king-charles-hiring-new-chef-work-sandringham-estate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Charles hiring new chef for Sandringham Estate<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Around 60,000 pink-footed geese, 13,000 Eurasian wigeon and 4,000 Brent geese winter at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25217767.look-back-holkham-north-norfolk-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holkham<\/a>, making it of international importance for these species,&#8221; it explained.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There are also 46 pairs of rare spoonbills that produced 90 young in 2023.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The author added:\u00a0&#8220;This spectacular 11-mile stretch of fragile windswept coastline is a maze of creeks and saltings, dunes and sandspits, shady pinewoods, green pastures and marshes.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It said Holkham can be reached via the\u00a0Sustrans National Cycle Network,\u00a0Peddars Way and\u00a0Norfolk Coast Path National Trail\u00a0and recommended the car parks at\u00a0Lady Anne\u2019s Drive and Wells Beach Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holkham has been included in a\u00a0round-up of the nation&#8217;s 15 best-looking nature reserves\u00a0which was\u00a0published recently in The Telegraph.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-55319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}