Scolt Head Island is an offshore barrier island between Brancaster and Wells-next-the-Sea in north Norfolk. It is in the parish of Burnham Norton and is accessed by a seasonal ferry from the village of Overy Staithe. The shingle and sand island appears to have originated from a former spit extending from the coast, and longshore drift means that it is slowly moving to the west and inshore.
The island comprises sand dunes, salt marsh, intertidal sand and mud flats, and shingle. It supports internationally important numbers of breeding Sandwich and little terns, and nationally significant populations of common and Arctic terns, as well as wintering waders and wildfowl. It has a number of uncommon plants adapted to its harsh environments. It was bought by the National Trust in 1923, and became a national nature reserve. It was subsumed into the North Norfolk Coast SSSI in 1986. The larger area is now additionally protected through Natura 2000, Special Protection Area (SPA) and Ramsar listings, and is part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The first resident first "watcher" (warden) on Scolt Head was pioneering ornithologist and photographer Emma Turner.
This isolated island has been largely undisturbed by human activity apart from service as an artillery range in World War II, and it is of international importance because of the extensive research into its geomorphology over nearly a century.
islands of England (excluding the mainland which is itself a part of the island of Great Britain), as well as a table of the largest English islands by...
Osea Island, Essex Piel Island, Cumbria ScoltHeadIsland, Norfolk Sheep Island, Cumbria (joined at low tide to Piel Island and to Walney Island) St Mary's...
Natural Beauty. The coast from Holkham NNR to Salthouse, together with ScoltHeadIsland, is a Biosphere Reserve. As many as 50,000 pink-footed geese, 13,000...
along the A149 at the edge of the Brancaster Manor marshland and the ScoltHeadIsland National Nature Reserve. Brancaster Staithe merges into Burnham Deepdale...
the best examples are at Holme Dunes, Holkham, Blakeney Point, and ScoltHeadIsland. The latter two sites are also important for geomorphology research...
are located near a large natural bay named Brancaster Bay and the ScoltHeadIsland National Nature Reserve. A medieval verse speaks of "London York and...
part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). ScoltHeadIsland and the coast from the Holkham National Nature Reserve to Salthouse...
along the A149, at the edge of the Brancaster Manor marshland and the ScoltHeadIsland National Nature Reserve. In 1931 the parish had a population of 81...
rock thrush (Monticola solitarius). The National Trust had purchased ScoltHeadIsland in Norfolk in 1923 for its terns and other breeding birds, but was...
along the A149 at the edge of the Brancaster Manor marshland and the ScoltHeadIsland National Nature Reserve. The villages are located about 3 miles (4...
1994, and the coast from Holkham NNR to Salthouse, together with ScoltHeadIsland, became a Biosphere Reserve in 1976. Blakeney Point has been designated...
The Broads National Park) Redgrave and Lopham Fen Roydon Common NNR ScoltHeadIsland NNR Swanton Novers NNR The Wash NNR Weeting Heath NNR Winterton Dunes...
Brancaster Staithe. This is a larger staithe, and runs to the west of ScoltHeadIsland. Sailing is often enjoyed here. In Brancaster Staithe, there are small...
sites: Slapton Ley, ScoltHeadIsland and Goldhanger, Essex. Outside Britain, the species is only known from the Canary Islands and Mediterranean coasts...
Coke of Norfolk and his Friends. London, New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Available Google Books. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Holkham....
November 2011. Paston-Williams, Sara (2006). Fish: Recipes from a Busy Island. Swindon: National Trust Books. ISBN 1905400071. Rodgers, Christopher P...
through the fen. The reserve has a reed bed and a fresh water lagoon and islands. It has a winter roost of up to 4,000 northern lapwings, and also hosts...
important for some scarce breeding birds, such as pied avocets on the islands, and western marsh harriers, Eurasian bitterns and bearded reedlings in...
Point Ingoldmells Point Gibraltar Point* St Edmund's Point Gore Point ScoltHead High Cape Blakeney Point* Marl Point Little Marl Point Winterton Ness...
centre. It is also the point of departure for seasonal ferries to the ScoltHeadIsland National Nature Reserve. To the east of the Burnham Overy creek, the...
located close to the coast, and overlooks the tidal Norton Marshes and ScoltHeadIsland NNR. The church of Burnham Norton St Margaret is one of 124 existing...
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