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Austere and strangely beautiful. Unit 7 in Orford Ness, Suffolk

A report from Unit 7's field trip to Orford Ness, Suffolk, 19–22 October 2010 In 1993 the National Trust took over the management of Orford Ness, a wild and remote shingle spit off the coast of Suffolk and the site for our research this year. It consists of three rare natural habitats: grazing marshes, salt marshes and vegetated shingle spreading over 16km of the coast. The latter is the largest of its type in Europe and is rare because of its complex sequence of ridges and swales deposited over the centuries to form its profile. Access to much of …