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Woodland Fungi Survey on Rougham Estate 2024
In under an hour’s foray in October 2024, volunteer surveyor Juliet Hawkins recorded 23 species of woodland fungi in Mellfield and Breach Woods on Rougham Estate – including 11 species new to the estate, with many more still to discover.
Moth Survey on Rougham Estate 2024 – Elm Wood
Moth Survey on Rougham Estate 2023
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23rd September marks the day of the bombing of Rougham Hall
Orchis mascula (Early purple orchid)
Viola riviniana (Dog Violet)
Dragonfly Survey on Rougham Estate 2021
Butterfly observations on Rougham Estate 2019-2021
The Rougham Estate consists of over 3,000 acres of Suffolk countryside with ancient meadows, green lanes, oak-lined hedgerows, bluebells and orchids, parklands and arable fields. It traces its history back to Roman times and has seen both Saxons and Vikings.
It was owned by the local abbey in Bury St Edmunds for six hundred years. During World War Two an airfield was built in the village and Rougham Hall was bombed. The Estate has been owned by the Agnew family since 1904 and now part of it is a charitable trust to preserve its legacy for the future.
