Environmental and biological survey and monitoring
Survey and monitoring studies commissioned by the LOHP, or carried out by our volunteers, are available for download on this page. The table below includes all LOHP sites and other sites of nature conservation interest in the Little Ouse Headwaters. We are grateful to our partner organisations for permission to reproduce some of their reports. All of these reports are under copyright - please contact us if you wish to use them for any puropse other than private study.
Published scientific papers on the physical and natural environment of the valley are also included in the table. These can be obtained by following the links provided. Some are freely available from some publishers and others can be purchased. For some topics on which little specific information is available from the Little Ouse headwaters area, references are given for work on near-by sites outside the valley.
Topic |
Site/s |
Year |
Content |
Author/s |
Access/download file |
|
Topography |
Garboldisham Old Fen |
2013 |
Topographic Survey, Old Fen, Garboldisham |
LOHP (Mike Harding & Laura Cox) |
 |
|
|
All from The Frith to Parkers Piece |
2006 |
Levels Survey |
ELP2 |
Download jpg |
| The Frith | 2002 | Levels survey | ELP | |
|
|
Soils |
Parkers Piece /Bleyswycks Bank |
2008 |
Parkers Piece and Blesywycks Bank Restoration Proposals |
ELP2 |
|
|
|
LOHP eastern sites |
2006 |
Peat core data |
ELP2 |
|
| Thelnetham Fens | 2014 | Drainage and soils survey | Andrew Adams Land Management Ltd. | |
|
|
Archaeology/ Paleobiology |
|||||
|
Parkers Piece |
2009 |
Archaeological investigation & paleoenvironmental investigation |
Cambridge Archaeological Unit
|
|
|
|
|
The Lows |
2001 |
Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Lows, East Anglian Fenlands (BSc dissertation) - 7 chapters in 2 pdfs |
John Mullholland, Collingwood College |
|
| Bugg's Hole Fen | 1981 | New fossil evidence for past cultivation and processing of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in Eastern England |
RHW Bradshaw, P Coxon, JRA Greig & AR Hall |
click to locate reference | |
| Redgrave & Lopham Little Fen | 1953 |
Studies in the Post-Glacial History of British Vegetation: XIII. Lopham Little Fen, A Late-Glacial Site in Central East Anglia
|
P A Tallantire | click to locate reference | |
| 1968 | Three more nameless meres | P A Tallantire | |
||
| Diss Mere | 1989 |
Vegetation and Land-Use History at Diss, Norfolk, U.K |
SM Peglar, SC Fritz & HJB Birks
|
click to locate reference | |
| 1993 |
The mid-Holocene Ulmus decline at Diss Mere, Norfolk, UK: a year-by-year pollen stratigraphy from annual laminations |
SM Peglar | click to locate reference | ||
| 1993 |
The mid-Holocene Ulmus fall at Diss Mere, South-East England — disease and human impact?
|
SM Peglar & HJB Birks |
click to locate reference | ||
| 1984 | Composition and formation of laminated sediments in Diss Mere, Norfolk, England |
SM Peglar, SC Fritz, T Alapieti, M Saarnisto & HJB Birks |
click to locate reference | ||
| 1993 |
The development of the cultural landscape around Diss Mere, Norfolk, UK, during the past 7000 years |
SM Peglar | click to locate reference | ||
| 1989 |
Lake Development and Limnological Response to Prehistoric and Historic Land-Use in Diss, Norfolk, U.K |
S C Fritz
|
click to locate reference | ||
| Quiddenham Mere | 1993 |
Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation history of Quidenham Mere, Norfolk, UK interpreted using recurrent groups of taxa |
SM Pelgar | click to locate reference | |
| Hydrology | |||||
| Little Ouse: Crackthorn Bridge to Thelnetham Ford | 1987 | River corridor survey | John Alder, Nigel Holmes | |
|
| All | 1993 | Dehydration and the threat to East Anglian Fens, England | V.J Voit | click to locate reference (p. 163) | |
|
|
All |
2013 |
Groundwater Monitoring Points In the Upper Little Ouse Valley |
Mike Harding |
|
| Thelnetham Fens | 2014 | Drainage and soils survey | Andrew Adams Land Management Ltd. | |
|
|
|
Parkers Piece/Bleyswycks Bank |
2008 |
Parkers Piece and Blesywyck’s Bank Restoration Proposals |
ELP |
|
|
|
Little Ouse |
2013 |
Little Ouse Headwaters: pilot restoration project |
Nigel Holmes |
|
|
Vegetation |
|
|
|
|
|
| All | Ecological Studies in the Breck Fens I. Vegetation in Relation to Habitat | S M Haslam | click here to retrieve | ||
| 2004 | Important Stonewort Areas (see p.74) | N. F. Stewart | published by Plantlife International: enquiries [at] plantlife.org.uk | ||
|
|
Bettys Fen |
2010 |
Stoneworts |
Nick Stewart |
|
|
|
|
2012 |
NVC1 Survey |
OHES |
|
| 2014 |
European Site Conservation Objectives for Waveney & Little Ouse Valley Fens SAC (UK0012882)
|
Natural England | click here to retrieve | ||
| 2020 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | ||
|
|
Blo’Norton Fen |
2012 |
NVC1 Survey |
OHES |
|
| 2014 | European Site Conservation Objectives for Waveney & Little Ouse Valley Fens SAC (UK0012882) | Natural England | click here to retrieve | ||
| SSSI citation | Natural England | click here to retrieve | |||
| SSSI units and condition assessment | Natural England | click here to retrieve | |||
| 2020 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | ||
|
|
Blo’Norton Little Fen |
2010 |
Stoneworts |
Nick Stewart |
|
|
|
|
2012 |
NVC1 Survey |
OHES |
|
|
|
Broomscot Common |
2011 |
vegetation monitoring programme pilot |
OHES |
|
| 2020 | Vegetetaion Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | ||
|
|
Bugg’s Hole Fen |
|
SSSI citation |
Natural England |
|
| SSSI condition | Natural England | click here to retrieve | |||
| Carr Meadow | 2020 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | |
|
|
Frogshall Carr |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Garboldisham Old Fen |
2004 |
English Lowland Bogs and Fens survey |
Natural England |
|
| Hinderclay Fen | 1960 | Transactions of the Suffolk Naturalists’ Society, 11, 367-385 | Bellamy, D.J. & Rose, F. | |
|
|
|
|
2005 |
NVC survey1 |
ELP (2006) |
|
| 2012 |
NVC1 Survey |
OHES | |
||
|
|
|
2010 |
Stoneworts |
Nick Stewart |
|
| 2003 | Lichen Survey | Chris Hitch | |
||
| 2020 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | ||
| Hopton Fen | SSSI citation | Natural England | click here to retrieve | ||
| SSSI units and condition | Natural England | click here to retrieve | |||
|
|
The Frith |
2006 |
condition assessment monitoring |
ELP |
|
| 2017 | The Frith: vegetation monitoring programme fieldwork report, June 2017 | Jonny Stone | click here for data |
||
|
|
The Lows |
2006 |
condition assessment monitoring |
ELP |
|
| 2017 | The Lows: vegetation monitoring programme fieldwork report, June 2017 | Jonny Stone | Click here for data |
||
|
Market Weston Fen |
1959 | Permanent plot data | David Bellamy: PhD thesis |
|
|
| 1991 | Re-recording of Bellamy’s Plots | SWT – Mike Harding | |
||
| 1995 |
Thirty Years of Change in the Vegetation Communities of Three Valley Mires in Suffolk, England |
Wanda Fojt and Mike Harding | click here to retrieve | ||
|
|
|
1999 |
Re-recording of Bellamy’s Plots |
SWT – Mike Harding |
|
| SSSI citation | Natural England | click here to retrieve | |||
| SSSI units and condition assessment | Natural England | click here to retrieve | |||
| New Fen | 2015 | Thelnetham New Fen – colonisation of willows on surrounding fen | OHES - Jonny Stone | |
|
| 2017 | New Fen: vegetation monitoring programme fieldwork, June 2017 | Jonny Stone | |
||
| 2022 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | ||
| Oak Tree Fen (Thelnetham Fen extension) | 2017 | Oak Tree Fen: vegetation monitoring programme fieldwork, June 2017 | Jonny Stone | Click here for data |
|
|
|
Parkers Piece/Blewswycks Bank |
2009 |
vegetation monitoring programme pilot |
OHES |
Click here for data |
| 2010 | vegetation monitoring | OHES | |
||
|
|
|
2010 |
Stoneworts |
Nick Stewart |
|
| 2017 | Parkers Piece: vegetation monitoring programme fieldwork, June 2017 | Jonny Stone | |
||
| 2017 | Bleyswycks Bank: vegetation monitoring programme fieldwork, June 2017 | Jonny Stone | Click here for data |
||
| 2023 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | ||
| Reeves Meadows | 2020 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | |
|
|
Scarfe Meadows |
2011 |
Habitat Restoration Report |
OHES |
|
| 2020 | Vegetation Monitoring Plots Report | Mike Harding - Hummingbird | Click here to download | ||
| Thelnetham Fen | 1959 | Permanent plot data | David Bellamy: PhD thesis | |
|
| 1961 | Transactions of the Suffolk Naturalists’ Society, 11, 367-385 | Bellamy, D.J. & Rose, F. | |
||
|
|
|
1992 |
Middle Fen - NVC |
SWT (Mike Harding) |
|
| 1995 | Thirty Years of Change in the Vegetation Communities of Three Valley Mires in Suffolk, England | Wanda Fojt and Mike Harding | click here to retrieve | ||
|
|
|
1999 |
Re-recording of Bellamy’s Plots (Old Fen) and a new Middle Fen plot |
SWT – Mike Harding |
|
| 2002 | Plant communities of Thelnetham Fen SSSI, Suffolk (NB 3 files, first is 14MB, next is just p. 23 and third is pp. 56 & 57! | ELP for SWT | |
||
| SSSI units and condition assessment | Natural England | click here to retrieve | |||
| 2004 | Important Stonewort Areas -Summary NB we have hard copy only of the full report | Plantlife International - Nick Stewart | |
||
|
|
Webbs Fen |
2011 |
habitat restoration report |
OHES |
|
| 2017 | Vegetation monitoring programme fieldwork, June 2017 | Jonny Stone | |
||
|
|
Little Ouse |
2013 |
Little Ouse River Macrophyte Survey |
OHES |
|
|
Birds |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Betty’s Fen |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Blo’Norton Fen |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Broomscot Common |
2011 |
LOHP Bird Surveys 2011
|
RHW & RA Langston |
|
|
|
|
2012 |
LOHP Bird Surveys 2012 |
RHW & RA Langston |
|
| 2013 | LOHP Bird Surveys 2013 | RHW & RA Langston | |
||
|
|
Hinderclay Fen |
2007-2012 |
Bird report |
RHW & RA Langston |
|
| 1998-2010 | Ringing totals report | J Clark | |
||
|
|
The Frith |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Lows |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parkers Piece/Blewswycks Bank |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scarfe meadows |
2011 |
LOHP Bird Surveys 2011 |
RHW & RA Langston |
|
|
|
|
2012 |
LOHP Bird Surveys 2012 |
RHW & RA Langston |
|
| 2013 | LOHP Bird Surveys 2013 | RHW & RA Langston | |
||
|
|
Webbs Fen |
2011 |
LOHP Bird Surveys 2011 |
RHW & RA Langston |
|
| 2012 | LOHP Bird Surveys |
RHW & RA Langston |
|
||
| 2013 | LOHP Bird Surveys 2012 | RHW & RA Langston | |
||
| Mammals | |||||
| All sites (river bank only) | 2014 | Water Voles (Key:
S – sighting L – breeding latrine D – droppings ie individual pellets B- burrow) |
Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) |  |
|
| Bettys Fen | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| Blo'Norton Fen | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| Blo'Norton Little Fen | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
||
| Broomscot Common | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| Hinderclay Fen | 2015 | Bat detector survey summary results: June 2015 | |
||
| Hinderclay Fen | 2015 | Bat detector survey summary results: May 2015 | LOHP/Norfolk Bat Survey | |
|
| Hinderclay Fen | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| Hinderclay Fen | 2007 | Bat detector survey | Suffolk Bat Group | |
|
| The Frith | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| The Lows | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| Parkers Piece/Bleyswycks Bank | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| Parkers Piece/Bleyswycks Bank | 2017 | Water Voles | LOHP - for national PTES survey | |
|
| Scarfe Meadows | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| Scarfe Meadows | 2011 | Water Voles | OHES (habitat restoration report) | |
|
| Scarfe Meadows | 2017 | Water Voles |
LOHP - for national PTES survey
|
|
|
| Webbs Fen | 2011 | Water Voles | Suffolk Wildlife Trust (map) | |
|
| 2011 | Water Voles | OHES (habitat restoration report) | |
||
| Reptiles & Amphibians | Betty's Fen | ||||
| Blo'Norton Fen | |||||
| Blo'Norton Little Fen | |||||
| Broomscot Common | |||||
| Hinderclay Fen | |||||
| The Frith | |||||
| The Lows | |||||
| Parkers Piece/Bleyswycks Bank | |||||
| Scarfe Meadows | |||||
| Webbs Fen |
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Invertebrates |
|
|
|
|
|
| All LOHP Sites | 2010-23 | Complete Invertebrate List | Steve Lane | Click here to download | |
|
|
Betty’s Fen |
2010- 12 |
molluscs |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
|
|
|
2010 |
aquatic Hemiptera-Heteroptera |
Geoff Nobes |
|
| 2011 | terrestrial invertebrates | Andy Godfrey | |
||
| 2021 | terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates | Steve Lane | Click here to download | ||
| Blo'Norton Fen | 2018 | aquatic invertebrates | Abrehart Ecology | |
|
|
|
|
2010-12 |
molluscs |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
|
|
|
2010 |
aquatic Hemiptera-Heteroptera |
Geoff Nobes |
|
| 2011 | terrestrial invertebrates | Andy Godfrey | |
||
|
|
|
2012 |
molluscs |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
| 2021 | terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates | Steve Lane | Click here to download | ||
|
|
Blo’Norton Little Fen |
2012 |
molluscs |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
| 2023 | Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates | Steve Lane | Click here to download | ||
| Broomscot Common | 2018 | aquatic invertebrates | Abrehart Ecology | |
|
|
|
|
2013 |
molluscs and aquatic invertebrates |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
|
|
|
2013 |
Aculeate hymenoptera |
Geoff Nobes |
|
| 2022 | Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates | Steve Lane | Click here to download | ||
| Carr Meadow | 2019 | terrestrial invertebrates | Steve Lane | |
|
|
|
Hinderclay Fen |
2010 |
aquatic Hemiptera-Heteroptera |
Geoff Nobes |
|
|
|
|
2010-12 |
molluscs |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
|
|
|
2011 |
terrestrial invertebrates |
Andy Godfrey |
|
|
|
|
2013 |
aculeate hymenoptera |
Geoff Nobes |
|
| 2021 | terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates | Steve Lane | |||
|
|
The Frith |
2010-12 |
molluscs
|
Abrehart Ecology |
|
| 2023 | Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates | Steve Lane | Click here to download | ||
|
|
The Lows |
2010-12 |
molluscs
|
Abrehart Ecology |
|
| 2023 | Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates | Steve Lane | Click here to download | ||
| New Fen | 2019 | terrestrial invertebrates | Steve Lane | |
|
| Parkers Piece/Bleyswycks Bank | 2019 | terrestrial invertebrates | Steve Lane | |
|
|
|
|
2010-12 |
molluscs |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
|
|
|
2011 |
terrestrial invertebrates |
Andy Godfrey |
|
|
|
|
2010 |
aquatic Hemiptera-Heteroptera |
Geoff Nobes |
|
| Reeves Meadows | 2019 | terrestrial invertebrates | Steve Lane | |
|
| Scarfe Meadows | 2018 | Aquatic invertebrates | Abrehart Ecology | |
|
|
|
|
2013 |
molluscs and aquatic invertebrates | Abrehart Ecology | |
| 2022 | Terrestrial and Aquatic Invertebrates | Steve Lane | Click here to download | ||
|
|
Webbs Fen |
2019 |
terrestrial invertebrates |
Steve Lane |
|
|
|
Little Ouse |
2013 |
Little Ouse River Macro-invertebrate Survey 2013 - report |
Abrehart Ecology |
|
| Raw data for above (Excel spreadsheet) | click here to download |
| Mike Harding - Hummingbird |
