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Acle

Acle is a market town on the River Bure on the Norfolk Broads in Norfolk, located halfway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth.

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The place

Acle is a market town on the River Bure on the Norfolk Broads in Norfolk, located halfway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth. It has the only bridge across the River Bure between Wroxham and Great Yarmouth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Acle

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Benet's Abbey

    St Benet's Abbey, also known as St Benet's at Holme or St Benet Hulme, was a medieval monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict situated at Cow Holm in Horning, Norfolk, England. It lay on the River Bure within the Broads.

    5.7 km · abbey in Horning, North Norfolk, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Moulton

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican round-tower church near the village of Moulton St Mary, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.8 km · church in Moulton St Mary, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints, Billockby

    All Saints' Church is an Anglican church, partly ruined, near the villages of Billockby and Fleggburgh, Norfolk, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.9 km · church building in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Damgate Marshes, Acle

    Damgate Marshes, Acle is a 64.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Norwich and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Broadland Ramsar site and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.

    900 m · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Upton Broad and Marshes

    Upton Broad and Marshes is a 195.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Norwich in Norfolk, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I and a larger area of 318-hectare is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    3.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Burgh Common and Muckfleet Marshes

    Burgh Common and Muckfleet Marshes is a 121.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Fleggburgh in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Broadland Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.

    4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Decoy Carr, Acle

    Decoy Carr, Acle is a 56-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Acle in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Broadland Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.

    1.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wisemans Mill At Tg 40921379

    Wiseman's Mill is a Grade II* listed drainage and former saw mill at Oby, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Built in 1753, it worked until 1933, then became derelict.

    3.4 km · mill building in Ashby with Oby, Great Yarmouth, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Clippesby Mill At TG 4092 1281

    Clippesby Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Ashby, Norfolk, United Kingdom. A drainage mill, it was converted to a basic weekend retreat in 1958, retaining most of its machinery.

    2.4 km · mill building in Ashby with Oby, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Kerrisons Level Drainage Mill

    Keys, or Kerrison's Level Mill, is a Grade II listed tower mill at Halvergate, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Built in the 1700s, it was raised in 1895.

    5.9 km · building in Halvergate, Broadland, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden

    School Rd, South Walsham, NR13 6DZ (3 miles NW of town),.

  2. 02
    Parish church of St Edmund
  3. 03
    Strumpshaw Old Hall Steam Museum

    Large private collection of stationary and mobile steam engines, usually in steam once a month in summer.

From Wikivoyage: Acle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Woodland Park Equestrian Centre

From Wikivoyage: Acle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Olive Tree
  2. 02
    Acle Spice

From Wikivoyage: Acle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Acle

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 123 km · London Luton (LTN), 156 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 184 km
Stations
Lingwood railway station, 4.8 km · Acle railway station, 900 m
  • London, Essex → Acle
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £18–24
  • London → Acle
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £18–24
  • Luton, Luton → Acle
    158 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Acle

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Acle. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    457 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    545 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    577 km

If you know how people move in Acle – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Acle

  • Halvergatevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.8 km
  • Freethorpevillage in Norfolk, England, UK5 km
  • Thurnevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK5.4 km
  • Fleggburghvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom5.3 km
  • Hemblingtonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK5.4 km
  • Beightonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK3.6 km