NHER 12554 (Monument record) - Little Switzerland and Paradise Plantations, post medieval chalk pits

18th to 19th century chalk pits, in which canals went right up to the working faces (and note also Marlstaithe Farm and Reach) from which wherries took the material to Acle Bridge Kiln, Limekiln Dyke at Barton Turf, and also Dilham, Reedham, Stalham and Great Yarmouth. Large heaps of overburden give the area its name.
Information from [1].

25 August 1980. Visit. High and Low Bridge. Context 1 at 2740 1742.
Very tall red brick structure but with low arch for water, hence name (see below) - more like a causeway. Part of parapet recently fallen. Its arch is so low that it may have been constructed after the cut known as Paradise went out of use (see below). This cut is deep through chalk, but now with very little water and mostly overgrown. Marlstaithe Farm has apparently been demolished. Was low arch to regulate size of cargoes as on Dilham canal?
E. Rose (NAU), 25 August 1980.

May 1983.
Cut Plantation Cut still waterfilled.
E. Rose (NAU).

In fact the bridge did originally have an extremely high arch, but the cut has been infilled to a large degree by hillwash.
The bridge is said to get its name from the fact that it had a high arch, but was set low as regards the approach on each side. After disuse the cut was planted with trees and given the name Paradise, as on (S1).
See various press cuttings of 1965 and 1981 in (S2).
E. Rose (NAU), 21 October 1988.

These pits appear as simple pits on (S3), as pits with attachment to river on (S4), and identical to present layout on (S5).
E. Rose (NLA) 26 July 1999.

See also NIAS records (S6)
W. Arnold (HES) 08/12/2010