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Castle Rising

Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

Castle Rising
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The place

Castle Rising is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of King's Lynn and 37 miles (60 km) north-west of Norwich.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Castle Rising

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
    Castle Rising Castle

    Castle Rising is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Castle Rising, Norfolk, England. It was built soon after 1138 by William d'Aubigny II, who had risen through the ranks of the Anglo-Norman nobility to become the Earl of Arundel.

    0 m · castle in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Grimston Warren Pit

    Grimston Warren Pit is a 6.6-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    2.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Roydon Common

    Roydon Common is a 194.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is also a Grade I Nature Conservation Review site, a National Nature Reserve and a Ramsar site.

    3.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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 Castle Rising

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 102 km · London Luton (LTN), 117 km · East Midlands (EMA), 121 km
  • London, Essex → Castle Rising
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £16–21
  • Luton, Luton → Castle Rising
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £13–17
  • London → Castle Rising
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Castle Rising

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKing's Lynn town centre can be accessed from West Lynn on a small passenger ferry.
  • Get inAlthough King's Lynn has an active port, there are no regular long-distance passenger ferries.

From Wikivoyage: King's Lynn, 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    264 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    306 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    478 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    511 km

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Around it

Next door to Castle Rising

  • South Woottonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • North Woottonvillage and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England2.7 km
  • Wolfertonvillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Babingleyhamlet in Norfolk, United Kingdom1.5 km