Broadland
Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England.

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.
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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.
- 01Carrow 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 - 02Norwich 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 - 03Norwich 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 - 04St 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 - 05Cow 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 - 06Pull'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 - 07St 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 - 08St 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 - 09St 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 - 10St 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
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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 → Broadland162 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £17–23
- London → Broadland162 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £17–23
- Luton, Luton → Broadland145 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Broadland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Broadland
- Thorpe St Andrewtown in Norfolk, England, UK700 m
- Sprowstonsuburban town in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Trowsevillage in Norfolk, UK3.3 km
- Kirby Bedonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK3.6 km
- Postwick with Wittoncivil parish in Norfolk, UK3.4 km
- Whitlinghamhamlet in Norfolk, England, UK1.7 km