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Gayton Thorpe

Gayton Thorpe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gayton, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England.

Gayton Thorpe
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The place

Gayton Thorpe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Gayton, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The village is located 7.1 miles (11.4 km) south-east of King's Lynn and 31 miles (50 km) north-west of Norwich. In 1931 the parish had a population of 136.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gayton Thorpe

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
    St Nicholas' Church

    St. Nicholas' Church is a medieval, Anglican church located in Gayton, in the English county of Norfolk.

    1.6 km · Grade I listed church in Gayton, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gayton Hall

    Gayton Hall is a country house in the parish of Gayton near King's Lynn in Norfolk.

    1.3 km · English country house in Gayton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    East Walton and Adcock's Common

    East Walton and Adcock's Common is a 62.4-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and part of Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation These commons have periglacial depressions separated by chalk ridges.

    1.7 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 Gayton Thorpe

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 97 km · London Luton (LTN), 115 km · East Midlands (EMA), 128 km
Stations
East Winch railway station, 3.7 km · Bilney railway station, 2.9 km
  • London, Essex → Gayton Thorpe
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £16–21
  • Luton, Luton → Gayton Thorpe
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £13–17
  • London → Gayton Thorpe
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gayton Thorpe

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 Gayton Thorpe. 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

    261 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    398 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    488 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    521 km

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Around it

Next door to Gayton Thorpe

  • Gaytonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK1.3 km
  • East Waltonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.2 km
  • West Bilneyvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.2 km