Yare Broads and Marshes

{{Short description|UK Site of Special Scientific Interest}}

{{Infobox SSSI

|image= Surlingham Church Marsh Nature Reserve - geograph.org.uk - 1285247.jpg

|image_caption = Surlingham Church Marsh RSPB Nature Reserve

|name= Yare Broads and Marshes

|aos= Norfolk

|interest=Biological

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|area= {{convert|744.5|ha|acre|abbr=off}}

|notifydate= 1988

|map=[http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271001231%27 Magic Map]

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Yare Broads and Marshes is a {{convert| 744.5 |ha|acre|abbr=off|adj=on}} biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Norwich in Norfolk, England.{{cite web|url= https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteDetail.aspx?SiteCode=S1001231&SiteName=&countyCode=29&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea= |title=Designated Sites View: Yare Broads and Marshes | series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date = 24 June 2018}}{{cite web|url= http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271001231%27|title=Map of Yare Broads and Marshes|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date= 24 June 2018}} Part of the site is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I{{cite book|editor-first=Derek |editor-last=Ratcliffe |title=A Nature Conservation Review|volume=2 |pages =209–10 |publisher= Cambridge University Press|location =Cambridge, UK |year=1977|isbn= 0521-21403-3 }} and most of it is in the Mid-Yare National Nature Reserve.{{Cite web|url=https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteGeneralDetail.aspx?SiteCode=1006983&SiteName=mid-yare&countyCode=&responsiblePerson=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea= |title=Designated Sites View: Mid-Yare |series=National Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England|access-date=28 May 2018}} It is part of the Broadland Ramsar site{{cite web|url= https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteGeneralDetail.aspx?SiteCode=UK11010&SiteName=&countyCode=29&responsiblePerson=&unitId=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea= |title=Designated Sites View: Broadland | series= Ramsar Sites|publisher=Natural England|access-date = 25 May 2018}} and Special Protection Area,{{cite web|url= https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteGeneralDetail.aspx?SiteCode=UK9009253&SiteName=&countyCode=29&responsiblePerson=&unitId=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea= |title=Designated Sites View: Broadland | series= Special Protection Areas|publisher=Natural England|access-date = 25 May 2018}} and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.{{cite web|url= https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteGeneralDetail.aspx?SiteCode=UK0013577&SiteName=&countyCode=29&responsiblePerson=&unitId=&SeaArea=&IFCAArea= |title=Designated Sites View: The Broads | series= Special Areas of Conservation|publisher=Natural England|access-date = 25 May 2018}} Two ares are Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserves, Strumpshaw Fen and Surlingham Church Marsh.{{cite web|url= https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/strumpshaw-fen/ |title= Strumpshaw Fen|publisher=Royal Society for the Protection of Birds| access-date= 2 June 2018}}{{cite web|url= https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/surlingham-church-marsh |title= Surlingham Church Marsh|publisher=Royal Society for the Protection of Birds|access-date= 24 June 2018}}

It is a nationally important wetland site, with grazing marsh, open water, fen, carr woodland and peat. There are many nationally rare plants and many birds including nationally important wintering flocks of wigeon.{{cite web|url= https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/PDFsForWeb/Citation/1001231.pdf |title=Yare Broads and Marshes citation|series= Sites of Special Scientific Interest|publisher=Natural England|access-date= 24 June 2018}}