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East Bilney

East Bilney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beetley, in the Breckland district of the English county of Norfolk.

The place

East Bilney is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beetley, in the Breckland district of the English county of Norfolk.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around East Bilney

4 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
    Spong Hill

    Spong Hill is an Anglo-Saxon cemetery site located south of North Elmham in Norfolk, England. It is the largest known Early Anglo-Saxon cremation site.

    3.4 km · Anglo-Saxon cemetery · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Horse Wood, Mileham

    Horse Wood, Mileham is a 7.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Dereham in Norfolk, England. It is an ancient coppice with standards wood on boulder clay, and the ground flora is diverse with several rare species.

    2.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Horningtoft Wood

    Horningtoft Wood is a 8.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Fakenham in Norfolk, England. This ancient coppice with standards wood on boulder clay has exceptionally diverse ground flora with several rare species.

    4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse

    Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse is a museum of rural life and former workhouse in the village of Gressenhall, Norfolk. It also houses a traditional working farm, a collection of art and artefacts, and a library and archive.

    3.8 km · museum in Gressenhall, Breckland, 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.

Go there

Getting to East Bilney

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 105 km · London Luton (LTN), 128 km · East Midlands (EMA), 149 km
  • London, Essex → East Bilney
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £16–22
  • London → East Bilney
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £16–22
  • Luton, Luton → East Bilney
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for East Bilney

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk.
  • Get inGreater Anglia, Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen run a "Rail and Sail to Holland" deal, which includes travel to any Greater Anglia station from Harwich International Port, following the ferry trip from Hook of Holland.

From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    273 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    280 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    418 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    503 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    536 km

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

Around it

Next door to East Bilney

  • Beetleyvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.4 km
  • North Elmhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.9 km
  • Milehamvillage in Norfolk, England3.4 km
  • Longhamvillage in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Stanfieldvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK1.3 km
  • Horningtoftvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.6 km