English: The northern edge of Blakeney Freshes. The tidal River Glaven extends from the sluices on the A149 coast road > 980634 and from there runs parallel to the coast, through the Glaven estuary behind the sand and shingle spit known as Blakeney Spit (seen in the background), before it discharges into the sea at Blakeney Point. Flood defence embankments run adjacent to the channel, which prevents the tidal flooding of adjacent fresh water marshes at Blakeney Freshes and at Cley and Salthouse. Because of the impeding danger of the former channel of the River Glaven being blocked by natural southwards migration of Blakeney Spit, and more recently also because of shingle that had become displaced following storms in 1993 and in 1996, resulting in flooding of the adjacent Blakeney Freshes Special Protection Area and the village of Cley, the Environment Agency decided to cut a new channel to the south of the old one > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/980787. Blakeney Spit, an extensive sand and shingle spit extending to Blakeney Point, two kilometres to the north west, can be seen in the background.