Fakenham
Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England.
Fakenham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Wensum, about 25 miles north-west of Norwich. The town is at the junction of several roads, including the A148 from King's Lynn to Cromer, the A1067 to Norwich and the A1065 to Swaffham.
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Worth seeing in and around Fakenham
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.
- 01Slipper Chapel
The Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, at Walsingham, is actually located one mile outside Walsingham, at Houghton Saint Giles, Norfolk, England. It incorporates both the historic Slipper Chapel built around 1340, and the more contemporary Chapel of Our Lady of Reconciliation completed in 1982, and its surrounding grounds.
5.1 km · Grade I listed minor basilica in Barsham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Raynham Hall
Raynham Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England. For nearly 400 years it has been the seat of the Townshend family.
6 km · Grade I listed English country house in North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03East Barsham Manor
East Barsham Manor is an important work of Tudor architecture, a leading and early example of a prodigy house, originally built in the 1520s. It is located in the village of East Barsham, about 2.5 miles north of the town of Fakenham and 2.1 miles south west of the village of Walsingham in the English county of Norfolk.
3.7 km · Grade I listed manor house in North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill, Colkirk, Norfolk is a high point, once the site of a beacon forming part of a chain from the North Norfolk Coast to London. The approximate location of the beacon is two kilometres to the west of the village of Colkirk, N52:48:15 E0:49:29.
3.8 km · hill near Fakenham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History
Hempton Rd, Fakenham, NR21 7LA, enquiries@fakenhamgasmuseum.com.
- 02Langham Glass
Greenway Lane, Fakenham, NR21 8ET, enquiries@langhamglass.co.uk.
- 03Houghton Hall
Grand Palladian pile built for Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first and (by some distance) longest-serving prime minister.
- 04Thursford Steam Engine Collection
Thursford, NR21 0AS,.
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Things to do
- 01Fakenham Golf Club
Pudding Norton, Fakenham, NR21 7NY,.
- 02Holywood Cinema
Market Place, Fakenham, NR21 9BP,.
- 03Fakenham Racecourse
Fakenham NR21 7NY (south across river from town centre), info@fakenhamracecourse.co.uk.
- 04Pensthorpe Natural Park
For several years the BBC TV SpringWatch Nature series was filmed based in the park.
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Where to eat
- 01Drifters Fish & Chips
- 02Running Horse
Hawthorn Way,.
- 03Henry IV
From Wikivoyage: Fakenham, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Fakenham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 114 km · London Luton (LTN), 135 km · East Midlands (EMA), 146 km
- Stations
- Little Snoring Airfield, 5.2 km
- London, Essex → Fakenham161 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £17–23
- London → Fakenham161 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · £17–23
- Luton, Luton → Fakenham136 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £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 Fakenham
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 Fakenham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe route follows mainly minor roads and some off-road paths along the coastline, and is signposted: from the south: Norwich and Dover, Kent from the west: King's Lynn and Tain, Highland.
- Get aroundMost parts of Wells are accessible on foot, using pavements, off-road footpaths or shopping streets.
- Get aroundWells Beach is over a mile to the north of Wells Quay, accessible using off-road footpaths, with its own car park.
From Wikivoyage: Wells-next-the-Sea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Fakenham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Fakenham
- Colkirkvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.9 km
- Great Snoringvillage in Norfolk, England, UK5 km
- Pudding Nortonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK1.8 km
- Duntonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom4.2 km
- Little Snoringvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK3.8 km
- Kettlestonevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK5 km