Coastal levels
Flat coastal grazing land reclaimed from saltmarsh, behind sea and river walls
- Flat marshland adjacent to the coast or estuaries
- Marine aluvium soils
- Sinuous and complex mediaeval dyke networks
- Uniform 19th century dyke networks
- Cattle grazed wet grassland
- Widespread modification for arable production
- Small plantations and carr woodlands
- Inland side of rising ground often
- Important wildlife conservation areas
This landscape type is found in a number of areas along the whole if Suffolk’s coast from North to South.
The Kessingland Marshes flank the Hundred River from Kessingland Beach westward through the Kessingland levels up to Henstead.
