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Attleborough

Attleborough is a market town and civil parish located on the A11 road between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England.

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The place

Attleborough is a market town and civil parish located on the A11 road between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England. The parish is in the district of Breckland and has an area of 21.9 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Attleborough

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
    Morley Old Hall

    Morley Old Hall is a Grade I-listed moated manor house built in the sixteenth century in the village of Morley Saint Peter, some twelve miles from the cathedral city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. The house was created circa 1600 by John Sedley, an architect to Henry VII. It is built to a U-shaped floor plan in two storeys with two storeys of attics.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed castle in South Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sea Mere, Hingham

    Sea Mere, Hingham is a 36.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest close to the town of Hingham in Norfolk, England. The site has a natural circular kettle hole mere which was formed during the Holocene period approximately 10,000 years ago and covers 20 acres together with areas of fen, grazing marsh and woodland.

    5.7 km · Site of Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wilby Hall

    Wilby Hall is a country house north of the village of Wilby, in the civil parish of Quidenham, in Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building on 9 February 1984.

    5.4 km · house in Quidenham, Breckland, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old Buckenham Fen

    Old Buckenham Fen is a 34.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. This valley fen has cattle grazed wet meadows, species rich reedbeds, a mere and dykes.

    3.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Swangey Fen, Attleborough

    Swangey Fen, Attleborough is a 48.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation.

    4.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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
    St Mary's Church

    Church St, Attleborough, NR17 2AH, attleboroughchurch@btinternet.com.

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

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Banham Zoo
  2. 02
    Combat Paintball

    NR16 2TH (3.5 miles from Watton Roundabout on the A11 towards Norwich.), james@combatpaintball.com.

  3. 03
    Hulabaloos
  4. 04
    Melsop Farm Park

    Ellingham Rd, Scoulton, Nr Watton, NR9 4NT, info@melsopfarmpark.co.uk.

  5. 05
    Northeast Generals

    Enjoy an ice-hockey game at the New England Sports Village.

  6. 06
    Sim-Fly

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

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Mulberry Tree

    Station Rd, Attleborough, NR17 2AS,.

  2. 02
    Woody's

    Church St, Attleborough, NR17 2AH, hello@woodystakeaway.co.uk.

  3. 03
    Pizza Bello
  4. 04
    The Rose of India

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

Go there

Getting to Attleborough

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 89 km · London Luton (LTN), 119 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 155 km
Stations
Attleborough railway station, 600 m · Old Buckenham Airport, 3.3 km · Spooner Row railway station, 4.8 km
  • London, Essex → Attleborough
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £14–19
  • London → Attleborough
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £14–19
  • Luton, Luton → Attleborough
    100 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Attleborough

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 Attleborough. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    259 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    278 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    418 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    526 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    559 km

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Around it

Next door to Attleborough

  • Old Buckenhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk in the United Kingdom5.6 km
  • Great Ellinghamvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.4 km
  • Deophamvillage and civil parish in South Norfolk, Norfolk, England5.3 km
  • Besthorpevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK900 m
  • Little Ellinghamvillage in Norfolk, England, UK5.7 km
  • Spooner Rowvillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom4.9 km