![]() It’s also meant gradually reintroducing a mix of both farmed and wild grazing animals such as red and fallow deer, pigs, cattle, ponies and sheep. Owner Hugh Somerleyton has committed one fifth (1,000 acres) of his land to rewilding, a process that includes slowly reducing non-native tree cover to let light rejuvenate seedbeds. True, you won’t find moose on the loose in the marshes here, but the two-mile-long lake - the centrepiece of a newly revamped luxury resort set within the Somerleyton estate, is increasingly a place where nature reigns. It’s summer 2020, and in the window between lockdowns I’ve made it a couple of hours out of London to Fritton Lake, a spot on the watery Suffolk-Norfolk border near The Broads that is, at least for this pandemic travel-deprived soul, a respectable stand-in for the wilds of Canada. ![]() Otherwise, all is still: the stunned silence of a heatwave. A lone canoeist cuts across the lake, sending ripples through a reflected skein of geese, honking as they fly overhead. Water and trees stretch as far as the eye can see, giving way to a bright blue sky. ![]()
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