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Bacton

Bacton is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

Bacton
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The place

Bacton is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is on the Norfolk coast, 12 miles (20 km) south-east of Cromer, 25 miles (40 km) north-west of Great Yarmouth and 19 miles (30 km) north of Norwich. Besides the village of Bacton, the parish includes the nearby settlements of Bacton Green, Broomholm, Keswick and Pollard Street. The civil parish of Bacton also includes Edingthorpe, which was added to Bacton civil parish under the County of Norfolk Review Order, 1935.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bacton

3 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
    Mundesley Cliffs

    Mundesley Cliffs is a 29.3-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of North Walsham in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and it is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    2.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stow Hill Windmill

    Stow Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Paston, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Built in 1827, the mill worked until 1930.

    3.3 km · building in Paston, North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bromholm Priory

    Bromholm Priory was a Cluniac priory, situated in a coastal location near the village of Bacton, Norfolk, England. The surviving ruins are Grade I listed.

    700 m · monastery in Bacton, 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 Bacton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 136 km · London Luton (LTN), 166 km · East Midlands (EMA), 188 km
Stations
Paston & Knapton railway station, 3.2 km
  • London, Essex → Bacton
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £14–18
  • London → Bacton
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £14–18
  • Luton, Luton → Bacton
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bacton

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 Bacton. 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    239 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    460 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

    557 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bacton

  • Mundesleya village located in North Norfolk, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Pastonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2 km
  • Knaptonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Wittonvillage and civil parish in North Norfolk, in the United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Walcottvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Ridlingtonvillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.7 km