With a view towards the adjoining dune system, across a carpet of flowering sea lavender. Many of the 120-odd species of sea lavender (also called Statice or Marsh-rosemary) are endemic and grow in certain restricted localities only. A closely related plant is the matted sea lavender which can only be found in North Norfolk; it forms cushions rather than a carpet.
One of the footpaths leading into the Holkham Nature Reserve can be accessed from the A149 east of Burnham Overy Staithe. The first section of this path leads through marsh pastures >
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Link which were reclaimed in the 18th and 19th centuries, beginning at Burnham Overy in 1639 and ending with the construction of the sea wall at Wells in 1859. Further seawards, the marsh pastures turn into saltmarsh >
Link. Sediments deposited by the sea have built up into a skim of mud and silt and, over the years, evolved into saltmarsh. The middle and upper levels of the saltmarshes at Holkham are covered with plants such as sea aster and sea lavender.
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