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Kent wildfowlers buy up north Norfolk marshland

Kent wildfowlers buy up north Norfolk marshland

Kent wildfowlers have acquired nearly 800 acres of land in the past year


By Will Finch

Friday, 21 January 2011

Kent Wildfowling & Conservation Association adds 564 acres of East Anglia to its extensive 10,500-acre portfolio

Kent Wildfowling & Conservation Association (KWCA), the country’s biggest wildfowling club, has announced its latest land acquisition — 564 acres of the Thornham Marshes, in Norfolk.

This latest purchase is the fifth new area of land to be bought by the club since January 2010. The KWCA said the deal will secure the future of wildfowling in the area, and that the land will be managed in a “sensitive way”. Shooting will be available to club members on a permit-only basis.

Club chairman Alan Jarrett said: “We have had another highly successful year, with new land in the Medway Estuary, The Swale, East Sussex, Essex and finally in north Norfolk. These purchases have allowed us to add almost 800 acres of prime shooting land to our portfolio.

“Our strategy of providing more and diverse shooting for the club is helping us to maintain membership at a high level of almost 500, and this in turn will help to finance the purchase of more land in the future.”

The rest of this article appears in 19th January issue of Shooting Times.

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