# Filby Broad

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{{Short description|Lake in Norfolk, England}}
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'''Filby Broad''' is one of five broads ([lake](/source/lake)s) in the [Trinity Broads](/source/Trinity_Broads) in [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk), [England](/source/England).  It lies within the [Broads National Park](/source/The_Broads_National_Park), adjacent to the village of [Filby](/source/Filby).<ref>{{cite news |title=Filby Broad: Norfolk nature reserve gets winter makeover |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-17078178 |access-date=1 June 2025 |work=BBC News |date=17 February 2012}}</ref>  The broad has an abundant selection of birds and wildlife.

The lake is connected to [Ormesby Broad](/source/Ormesby_Broad) and [Rollesby Broad](/source/Rollesby_Broad) via a narrow inlet under a road bridge and via the [River Bure](/source/River_Bure) and the main broads network by a now unnavigable cutting with a lock gate.  This cuts the broad off from the main Broadland area and that means there is no water traffic for a majority of the time. As with the other Norfolk broads, Filby is a peat working and is now only about six to eight feet at its deepest. It is approximately half-a-mile long and surrounded on all sides by reed banks and trees, and one end of the Bridges Carrs area of the broad has been given [Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest) status.

Currently the main use as a body of water is as a reservoir serving the [Yarmouth](/source/Great_Yarmouth) and Broadland areas, owned and operated by the Essex and Suffolk Water Company.  There is no public access to the Broad.  It has a public boardwalk constructed at the north west side.  As a leisure facility the main occupant of the broad is the Norfolk Schools Sailing Association, which has occupied the site since the early 1970s and has built over time a sailing base, slip ways and dinghy park at the north end of the broad.  The Association is a voluntary group that provides sailing training to children and adults within the county of Norfolk.  
 
This has created a body of water that has a very restricted level of human access leaving it an ideal spot within the broadland area for nesting birds away from the tourist bustle of the main rivers.

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Category:Norfolk Broads

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