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Ashwicken

Ashwicken is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Leziate, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England.

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The place

Ashwicken is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Leziate, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The village sits on the B1145 King's Lynn to Mundesley road around 5 miles (8.0 km) east of King's Lynn. In 1931 the parish had a population of 117. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Leziate.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ashwicken

6 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 Nicholas' Church

    St. Nicholas' Church is a medieval, Anglican church located in Gayton, in the English county of Norfolk.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Gayton, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gayton Hall

    Gayton Hall is a country house in the parish of Gayton near King's Lynn in Norfolk.

    3.6 km · English country house in Gayton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Middleton Tower

    Middleton Towers is a privately owned country house in Norfolk, England, near the village of Middleton and about 3 miles east of King's Lynn. The hall is a Grade I listed building, and the adjacent earthworks are a scheduled monument.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Roydon Common

    Roydon Common is a 194.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is also a Grade I Nature Conservation Review site, a National Nature Reserve and a Ramsar site.

    3.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bawsey SSSI

    Bawsey is a 2.6-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Bawsey, east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    1.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    East Winch Common

    East Winch Common is a 26.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is common land and is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    3 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, United Kingdom · 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 Ashwicken

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 97 km · London Luton (LTN), 113 km · East Midlands (EMA), 124 km
Stations
East Winch railway station, 1.9 km · Middleton Towers railway station, 2.7 km
  • London, Essex → Ashwicken
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £16–21
  • Luton, Luton → Ashwicken
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £13–17
  • London → Ashwicken
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ashwicken

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKing's Lynn town centre can be accessed from West Lynn on a small passenger ferry.
  • Get inAlthough King's Lynn has an active port, there are no regular long-distance passenger ferries.

From Wikivoyage: King's Lynn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    260 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    484 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    517 km

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Around it

Next door to Ashwicken

  • Gaytonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.9 km
  • East Winchvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Grimstonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK3.5 km
  • Middletonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.9 km
  • Bawseyvillage in Norfolk, England, UK1.9 km
  • Leziatevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2 km