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Bawburgh

Bawburgh is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England.

Bawburgh
Bawburgh · John Crome
The place

Bawburgh is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. It is in the valley of the River Yare about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Norwich city centre. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 466, increasing to 595 at the 2011 census. Bawburgh is very close to the relatively new Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the Bowthorpe Estate.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bawburgh

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
    Sainsbury Centre

    Art gallery and museum at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, United Kingdom

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Earlham Hall

    Country house in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Costessey Hall

    Manor house in Norfolk, England

    2.8 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Bawburgh

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 105 km · London Luton (LTN), 135 km · East Midlands (EMA), 171 km
  • London, Essex → Bawburgh
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–21
  • London → Bawburgh
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–21
  • Luton, Luton → Bawburgh
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bawburgh

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk.
  • Get inGreater Anglia, Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen run a "Rail and Sail to Holland" deal, which includes travel to any Greater Anglia station from Harwich International Port, following the ferry trip from Hook of Holland.

From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    264 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    276 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    433 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

    558 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bawburgh

  • Hethersettvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.9 km
  • Eastonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.9 km
  • Little Meltonvillage and civil parish in South Norfolk, Norfolk, England2 km
  • Costesseyvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.8 km
  • Colneyvillage in the western outskirts of Norwich in Norfolk, England2.7 km
  • Great Meltonvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.5 km