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Alderford

Alderford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Norwich.

Alderford
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The place

Alderford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Norwich.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alderford

5 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
    Swannington Upgate Common

    Swannington Upgate Common is a 20.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Norwich in Norfolk, England. This site has varied habitats including glacial sands and gravels, peat, dry and wet heath, woodland, grassland, ponds and a stream.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Alderford Common

    Alderford Common is a 17.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Norwich in Norfolk, England. The common has a thin layer of glacial sands and gravels over chalk.

    800 m · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham

    St Faith's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Little Witchingham in Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    1.5 km · church in Little Witchingham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Michael the Archangel's Church, Booton

    St Michael the Archangel's Church is a redundant Anglican church near the village of Booton, Norfolk, England. It is listed in the National Heritage List for England at Grade II* listed building, and is vested in the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.5 km · church in Booton, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Nicholas' Church, Brandiston

    St Nicholas Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Brandiston, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.1 km · church in Brandiston, 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.

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Getting to Alderford

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 112 km · London Luton (LTN), 140 km · East Midlands (EMA), 167 km
Stations
Attlebridge railway station, 1.5 km
  • London, Essex → Alderford
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £17–23
  • London → Alderford
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Alderford
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alderford

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 Alderford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk.
  • Get inGreater Anglia, Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen run a "Rail and Sail to Holland" deal, which includes travel to any Greater Anglia station from Harwich International Port, following the ferry trip from Hook of Holland.

From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    264 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    517 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    549 km

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

Around it

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