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Babingley

Babingley is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandringham, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Castle Rising and 5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) north-north-east of King's Lynn.

Babingley
Babingley · Stavros1 at English Wikipedia
The place

Babingley is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandringham, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Castle Rising and 5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) north-north-east of King's Lynn. In 1931 the parish had a population of 91. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Sandringham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Babingley

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
    Castle Rising Castle

    Castle Rising is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Castle Rising, Norfolk, England. It was built soon after 1138 by William d'Aubigny II, who had risen through the ranks of the Anglo-Norman nobility to become the Earl of Arundel.

    2.1 km · castle in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    York Cottage

    York Cottage is a house in the grounds of Sandringham House in Norfolk, England.

    2.9 km · house in the grounds of the Sandringham Estate, in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham

    St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham is a Church of England parish church in Norfolk, England. It is situated next to Sandringham House, and members of the British royal family regularly attend services when in residence at Sandringham, notably at Christmas.

    2.7 km · church on the Sandringham Estate in Sandringham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Park House

    Park House stands on the Sandringham estate in North Norfolk, England. It was built by Edward, Prince of Wales as a home for General Sir William Knollys, who had been appointed comptroller of the prince's household in 1862.

    2.6 km · country house hotel in Sandringham, Norfolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Appleton Water Tower

    The Appleton Water Tower is a Victorian water tower located in Flitcham with Appleton, Norfolk. It was constructed in 1877 to improve the quality of the water supply to the nearby Sandringham House and its estate.

    3.3 km · water tower in Flitcham with Appleton, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Babingley

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 104 km · London Luton (LTN), 119 km · East Midlands (EMA), 122 km
  • London, Essex → Babingley
    150 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £17–22
  • Luton, Luton → Babingley
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · £14–18
  • London → Babingley
    150 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Babingley

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 Babingley. 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

    266 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    397 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    478 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    511 km

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Around it

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  • Sandringhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.9 km
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