Barsham, Norfolk
Barsham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and includes the villages of East Barsham, North Barsham, West Barsham and Houghton St Giles.
Barsham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and includes the villages of East Barsham, North Barsham, West Barsham and Houghton St Giles. The villages are all situated within 2 miles (3.2 km) miles of each other, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the town of Fakenham and 28 miles (45 km) north-west of the city of Norwich. The headwaters of the River Stiffkey flow through both East and North Barsham and Houghton St Giles.
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Worth seeing in and around Barsham, Norfolk
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.
- 01Slipper Chapel
The Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, at Walsingham, is actually located one mile outside Walsingham, at Houghton Saint Giles, Norfolk, England. It incorporates both the historic Slipper Chapel built around 1340, and the more contemporary Chapel of Our Lady of Reconciliation completed in 1982, and its surrounding grounds.
1.7 km · Grade I listed minor basilica in Barsham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is a Church of England shrine church, built in 1938 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. It was established as part of the revival of pilgrimage devotion led by Father Alfred Hope Patten in the 1920s.
3.8 km · Church of England shrine church built in 1938 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England · Wikipedia - 03Walsingham Priory
Walsingham Priory, originally established in the 12th century, was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. Also known as the Augustinian Priory of The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, it became a significant pilgrimage site, associated with the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, before being seized by the Crown and largely destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
3.7 km · Grade I listed monastery in Walsingham, North Norfolk, England,UK · Wikipedia - 04East Barsham Manor
East Barsham Manor is an important work of Tudor architecture, a leading and early example of a prodigy house, originally built in the 1520s. It is located in the village of East Barsham, about 2.5 miles north of the town of Fakenham and 2.1 miles south west of the village of Walsingham in the English county of Norfolk.
1 km · Grade I listed manor house in North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Mary and All Saints
St Mary and All Saints Church is the parish church of Little Walsingham in the English county of Norfolk. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and All Saints.
3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Little Walsingham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Barsham, Norfolk
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 117 km · London Luton (LTN), 138 km · East Midlands (EMA), 145 km
- London, Essex → Barsham, Norfolk154 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £17–23
- London → Barsham, Norfolk154 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £17–23
- Luton, Luton → Barsham, Norfolk147 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £15–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Barsham, Norfolk
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 Barsham, Norfolk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe route follows mainly minor roads and some off-road paths along the coastline, and is signposted: from the south: Norwich and Dover, Kent from the west: King's Lynn and Tain, Highland.
- Get aroundMost parts of Wells are accessible on foot, using pavements, off-road footpaths or shopping streets.
- Get aroundWells Beach is over a mile to the north of Wells Quay, accessible using off-road footpaths, with its own car park.
From Wikivoyage: Wells-next-the-Sea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Barsham, Norfolk
- Walsinghamcivil parish in North Norfolk, Norfolk, England3.6 km
- Great Snoringvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.9 km
- Sculthorpevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK3.6 km
- Houghton St Gilesvillage in Norfolk, UK2.2 km
- West Barshamvillage in Norfolk, UK700 m
- East Barshamvillage in Norfolk, UK1.2 km