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The Litcham Common Ponies

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The major focus over the past few months has continued to be the project to reintroduce grazing on the common, using Dartmoor ponies. Four ponies have been purchased and at the moment are being looked after by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust at Grimston Warren nature reserve. They will be brought to Litcham once the north-west half of the common has been made stock proof. This work is scheduled to take place in the second half of May, so the ponies should arrive at Litcham in early June.


The progress of the grazing proposals has been reported on an ongoing basis in ‘Church & Village’ magazine and also on this website. The Management Committee is grateful for the feedback received and also to the members of the public who have volunteered to help look after the ponies once they arrive.

Here is a photograph of three of the ponies at Grimston Warren.

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 Left: Show Time Truelove (iron grey) - Centre:Lucky Boy Truelove (bright bay with a white star)  - Right:Simon (dark bay)
The fourth, not pictured, is named Freedom and is a bay/roan.

The Management Committee is keen to include the local community in the grazing project as much as possible and is pleased that Litcham Primary School has shown an interest. Anyone else who would like to help, or has questions or comments, is asked to speak to a member of the Management Committee.