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Briston

Briston is a village, civil parish, and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk.

Briston
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The place

Briston is a village, civil parish, and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk. It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-west of Holt and 19 miles (31 km) north-west of Norwich.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Briston

2 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
    Melton Constable Hall

    Melton Constable Hall is a large country house in the parish of Melton Constable, Norfolk, England designed in the Christopher Wren style and built between 1664 and 1670 for the Astley family who owned the estate from 1235 until 1948. The core of the house is Elizabethan.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed country house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Lawrence Parish Church, Hunworth

    St Lawrence Parish Church is a Grade II listed building in the village of Hunworth in Norfolk, England.

    2.8 km · Grade II* listed church in Hunworth, 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 Briston

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 121 km · London Luton (LTN), 146 km · East Midlands (EMA), 160 km
  • London, Essex → Briston
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £18–24
  • London → Briston
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £18–24
  • Luton, Luton → Briston
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h · £16–22
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Briston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFerry tours depart from Morston Quay, in the next village.

From Wikivoyage: Cley next the Sea, 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    266 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    290 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    504 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    536 km

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

Around it

Next door to Briston

  • Melton Constablevillage in Norfolk, England, UK1.8 km
  • Brintonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK3.7 km
  • Stodyvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.2 km
  • Brininghamvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.8 km
  • Swanton Noversvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom4 km
  • Thornagevillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.7 km