The is a small grassland site by the River Yare which via a board walk gives access to Earlham Marsh and beyond. In the summer the grassland area is managed as wildflower meadow, which is cut late summer.
Earlham Millennium Green is suitable for wheel chairs; A circular boardwalk gives access to the River Yare and around a pond. Fishing and viewing platforms are accessible from the boardwalk.
Earlham Marsh.
Earlham and Bowthorpe Marsh are both under the Environmentally Sensitive Area Scheme, managed by DEFRA. This scheme gives additional grant aid to farmers and to landowners to manage their land in a sensitive manner.
Traditional wet grazing marsh, which floods during the autumn, winter and spring. A great place to see a range of wetland birds: snipe, teal, heron, tufted duck and coot. The marsh is grazed during the summer by cows. A riverbank side path takes you along the River Yare to Bland Road. For a short walk follow the path back along road, turning right past the play area on your left, this will take you onto Bevan Close. Turn right onto Bevan Close and walk to its end, then turn right through the kissing gate back into Earlham Millennium Green.
If you want a long walk turn left when you get to Bland Road and follow the footpath taking a left down to Bowthorpe Marsh, where you will cross a footbridge.
Bowthorpe Marsh.
This is a wet marsh grazed by horses; you can either do a circular walk around the marsh or follow the path along the river underneath the road bridge onto Bowthorpe Southern Park. Bowthorpe Marsh gets very wet in winter. Paths are wet, muddy and uneven.
Bowthorpe Southern Park.
This relatively new park site, which was created as a result of gravel attraction. The extracted gravel was used to build the embankment for the new bridge linking Bowthorpe with Colney. As result of the gravel extraction two ponds where created, which from the air look like a butterfly. A network of paths forms a circular walk around the site, which will take you to the car park at Chapel Break Road and then back to Bowthorpe Marsh. This is a site worth exploring, with level, surfaced paths suitable for wheel chairs and prams.
Name of Site: Earlham Millennium Green, Earlham & Bowthorpe Marsh & Bowthorpe Southern Park.