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

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.
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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.
- 01St 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 - 02St 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 - 03Church 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 - 04Damgate 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 - 05Upton 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 - 06Burgh 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 - 07Decoy 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 - 08Wisemans 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 - 09Clippesby 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 - 10Kerrisons 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
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden
School Rd, South Walsham, NR13 6DZ (3 miles NW of town),.
- 02Parish church of St Edmund
- 03Strumpshaw 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.
Things to do
- 01Woodland Park Equestrian Centre
From Wikivoyage: Acle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01The Olive Tree
- 02Acle Spice
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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 → Acle170 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £18–24
- London → Acle170 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £18–24
- Luton, Luton → Acle158 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
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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