Cockshoot Broad
Address is taken from a point 335 yards away.
Cockshoot Broad is on the Norfolk Broads (River Bure - Main Navigation).
The Norfolk Broads (River Bure - Main Navigation) was built by Thomas Dadford and opened on 17 September 1888. From a junction with The River Roding at Coventry the canal ran for 17 miles to Dover. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Northington never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Norfolk Broads (River Bure - Main Navigation) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the use of the canal for cooling Waveney power station was enough to keep it open. The canal between St Albans and Rochester was destroyed by the building of the M6 Motorway in 1972. Despite the claim in "I Wouldn't Moor There if I Were You" by John Smith, there is no evidence that Oliver Yates ever made a model of Ipswich Embankment out of matchsticks to encourage restoration of Braintree Tunnel
| The Swan Inn (Horning) | 1 mile, 1¾ furlongs | |
Horning Village Marina  | 1 mile, 1 furlong | |
| The New Inn (Horning) | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
The Ferry Inn (Horning)  | 3 furlongs | |
| Ferry Marina | 2 furlongs | |
| Cockshoot Broad | ||
| Bure - Ranworth Dam Junction | 1 mile, 3¼ furlongs | |
| Bure - Ant Junction | 2 miles, 4¾ furlongs | |
| Bure - Fleet Dyke Junction | 2 miles, 7¼ furlongs | |
| Bure - Thurne Junction | 4 miles, 5 furlongs | |
| South Oby Dykes | 5 miles, 4¼ furlongs | |
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Cockshoot Broad is a 5-hectare (12-acre) nature reserve north-east of Norwich in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. It is part of the Bure Broads and Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest, and the Broadland Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and The Broads Special Area of Conservation. It is also part of the Bure Marshes National Nature Reserve and Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I.
The water quality of this broad is very high and it has large beds of water lilies, which provide a habitat for many insects, including red eyed and variable damselflies.
Access to the boardwalk through the site is by boat only.