Brockdish
Brockdish is a village and civil parish in the south of the English county of Norfolk.

Brockdish is a village and civil parish in the south of the English county of Norfolk. It is 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south-west of Harleston and 18 miles (29 km) south of Norwich. The parish includes Thorpe Abbotts. The River Waveney, which marks the county border with Suffolk, is the southern boundary of the parish, with Brockdish the highest point where the river is navigable by small watercraft.
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Worth seeing in and around Brockdish
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.
- 01Wingfield Castle
Wingfield Castle in the parish of Wingfield in Suffolk, England is a Grade I listed building which is now a fortified manor house and was the ancestral home of the Wingfield family and their heirs, the de la Pole family, created Earls and Dukes of Suffolk. It is now a private house.
2.6 km · Grade I listed quadrangular castle in Mid Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum
The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, located in the original control tower and other remaining buildings of the RAF Thorpe Abbotts airfield east of Diss in Norfolk is named after the 100th Bomb Group and is dedicated to the American soldiers and members of the US 8th Air Force who fought with the Allies in Norfolk in World War II. The area also became known as the "Fields of Little America" due to the number of Americans stationed there. The entire former control tower is now museum space that highlights documents, photographs, uniforms and service equipment, plus a recreation of the original teleprinter room.
3 km · independent museum in the East of England · Wikipedia
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Things to do
- 01Angles Way
A 93-mile walking trail from Great Yarmouth to Thetford following the county boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk.
- 02Banham Zoo
- 03Bressingham Steam & Gardens
Steam train rides, fairground dodgems & roundabout.
- 04Snetterton Motor Race Circuit
NR16 2JU (13 miles to NW), snetterton@motorsportvision.co.uk.
- 05Diss Leisure Centre
106 Victoria Road, Diss, IP22 4JG, dsfc@s-norfolk.gov.uk.
- 06Regional Cycle Route 30
From Wikivoyage: Brockdish, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Diss has a variety of places to eat.
- 01Saracens Head
75 Mount St, IP22 4QQ (next to St Mary's Church (near the centre of town)),.
- 02Fair Green Fish Bar
37 Denmark Street, Diss, IP22 4BE,.
- 03Diss Tandoori
1-3 Shelfanger Rd, Diss, IP22 4EH, info@diss-tandoori.com.
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Getting to Brockdish
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 88 km · London Luton (LTN), 123 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 154 km
- London, Essex → Brockdish134 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £15–20
- London → Brockdish134 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Brockdish125 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Brockdish
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 Brockdish. 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 Brockdish – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Brockdish
- Hoxnevillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3.9 km
- Needhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Sylehamvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.3 km
- Wingfieldvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3 km
- Weybreadvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.2 km
- Thorpe Abbottsvillage in Norfolk, England, UK1.8 km