The rivers of the Brecks thread their way through the mostly dry landscape of forest, heath and farmland. They have long been important for travel and transport, industry and trade, for wildlife, and for people to live and work and play.

The Brecks is an area of 370 square miles either side of the Norfolk/Suffolk border. The name was coined after WG Clarke published In Breckland Wilds in 1925. Over the past few decades local organisations have come together to celebrate it, with many projects looking at the forest, heaths, rivers and other water bodies, and at how people interact with the landscape.

This website follows on from two of those projects. Healing Waters: Outdoor Swimming promoted safe and responsible outdoor swimming and access, and Tales from the River discovered and celebrated stories of swimming and other recreation in the rivers and other waters. Read more about these in a section of Imogen’s River Swims website. Both projects were part of The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme (BFER).