Coast & countryside

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Our countryside, your backgarden

View across the Norfolk countryside from Marble Hill holiday cottage on the Felbrigg Estate © Fisheye Images

We look after more than 28,500 acres of countryside, 38km of open coast and 43km of sheltered estuary in the East of England - all just waiting for you to explore.

Icons in the landscape - our mills

Close-up of the top of Horsey Windpump © NTPL/Jonathon Cass

From Bourne Mill in Essex to Flatford Mill in Suffolk - there's a few to look out for.

There's also Houghton Mill, Lode Mill and Wicken Windpump in Cambridgeshire alongside Burnham Overy and Horsey Windpump in Norfolk.

What your visit means to us...

  • 300 visits enable Wicken Fen to employ a warden for a month
  • 57 visits enable us to clear one hectare of scrub at Dunstable Downs
  • 10 visits keeps our mowers going at Felbrigg Hall for a month