Welcome to the Brecks . . . This is the leading site, courtesy of the Brecks Countryside Project, for information about the Brecks regiion in East Anglia. It includes information about Norfolk, Suffolk, Thetford, Bury St Edmunds and Swaffham. Tourists in and to the UK can enjoy green tourism, featuring heathland, meres pingo ponds, birdwatching, dragonflies, bicycling, walking and horse riding. There is an extensive choice of footpaths, bridleways, hotels, restuarants and bed and breakfasts.
Wildlife includes stone curlews, nightjars, woodlarks, long-eared long eared owls and red deer.
Archeaological and historic sites include Grimes Graves and Oxburgh Hall. At this site you can learn more about flint knapping, The Devil's Punchbowl, West Stow Anglo Saxon village, the Peddars Way National Trail and the Harling Drove long distance footpath. Neolithic flint mines still yield the ancient tools of stone age people.