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Broadland

Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England.

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The place

Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England. It was named after the Norfolk Broads, which includes some eastern parts of the district. Its council is based at the Broadland Business Park on the outskirts of Norwich. The district includes the towns of Acle, Aylsham, Reepham, Sprowston and Thorpe St Andrew. Several of the district's settlements form part of the Norwich built-up area, lying outside the city's boundaries to the north-west and north-east. The district also includes numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broadland

10 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
    Carrow Road

    Carrow Road is a football stadium in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and is the home of EFL Championship club Norwich City. The stadium is east of the city, near Norwich railway station and the River Wensum.

    3.2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Norwich Cathedral

    Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Norwich and the mother church of the diocese of Norwich.

    3.5 km · cathedral in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Norwich Castle

    Norwich Castle is a medieval royal fortification in the city of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk. William the Conqueror ordered its construction in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England.

    3.8 km · historic castle and museum in Norwich, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Andrew's Hall

    St Andrew's and Blackfriars' Hall, or The Halls, is a Grade I listed complex of former Dominican priory church and convent buildings in the English city of Norwich, Norfolk. They are the most complete set of pre-Reformation mendicant monastic structures to survive in England.

    3.8 km · building in Norwich, Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cow Tower

    The Cow Tower is an artillery tower by the River Wensum in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Built between 1398 and 1399 by the city authorities in response to the threat from France and indigenous English rebels, the tower was intended to defend the north-eastern approach to Norwich with hand cannons and bombards.

    3 km · Medieval artillery tower in Norwich, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Pull's Ferry

    Pulls Ferry is a former ferry house located on the River Wensum in Norwich, Norfolk, England. It is a flint building and was once a 15th-century watergate.

    3.1 km · building in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary the Less, Norwich

    St Mary the Less is a Grade I listed redundant church located in Norwich, England. It is on the north side of Queen Street near the street's junction with Tombland.

    3.7 km · church in Norwich, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St John the Theologian's Church

    The Church of St John the Baptist and the Holy Sepulchre, usually shortened to St John de Sepulchre or St Sepulchre, and known as St John the Theologian during its more recent use by the Orthodox Church, is a Grade I listed redundant parish church on Ber Street and Finkelgate in Norwich, England. Having existed since prior to the Norman Conquest in 1066, It became part of the Church of England, then after its 1984 redundancy was an Eastern Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2009, and finally re-opened for secular use.

    3.8 km · church in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Peter Hungate, Norwich

    St Peter Hungate is a Grade I listed redundant parish church in the Church of England in Norwich. It is dedicated to Saint Peter the Apostle, one of four medieval churches in the city that had this dedication.

    3.8 km · church in Norwich, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Peter Parmentergate

    St Peter Parmentergate is a Grade I listed redundant parish church in the Church of England in Norwich.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Norwich, United Kingdom · 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 Broadland

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 113 km · London Luton (LTN), 144 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 179 km
Stations
Norwich railway station, 3.1 km · Trowse railway station, 3.4 km · Whitlingham railway station, 1 km
  • London, Essex → Broadland
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £17–23
  • London → Broadland
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Broadland
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broadland

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 Broadland. 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

    253 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    444 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    535 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    567 km

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

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