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English: Approach to Swim Coots Drainage Mill Swim Coots Drainage Mill is located in the Hickling Broad National Nature Reserve. The track leading to this mill is private, but permission for access will be granted when sought. This mill was built as a drainage mill, but it used to have a single small pair of stones that had been incorporated within the structure to grind animal feed. The mill stood by a dyke on the shore of Hickling Broad at the end of a long track, through marshy reed beds, and it once had a Norfolk boat shaped cap, patent sails and a fantail.

For more detailed information see http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/WindmillsD/catfield-swim-coots-drainage.html

Hickling Broad with its 500 acres of open water is the largest of the broads and Hickling Broad National Nature Reserve is an internationally important

wetland habitat where endangered species such as the marsh harrier, bittern and swallowtail butterfly, as well as summer visitors like the spoonbill, are to be found in its grassland and marshes. The nature reserve can be accessed via a number of walking trails, some with hides for bird watchers. The Weavers Way also runs through the reserve.