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Hempton

Hempton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, along the course of the River Wensum.

Hempton
Hempton · Tilman2007
The place

Hempton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, along the course of the River Wensum.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hempton

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.

  1. 01
    Raynham Hall

    Raynham Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England. For nearly 400 years it has been the seat of the Townshend family.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed English country house in North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Beacon 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.

    1.7 km · hill near Fakenham, 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.

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Getting to Hempton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 112 km · London Luton (LTN), 133 km · East Midlands (EMA), 145 km
  • London, Essex → Hempton
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–22
  • London → Hempton
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–22
  • Luton, Luton → Hempton
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hempton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    279 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    418 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    494 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    527 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hempton

  • Fakenhamtown in Norfolk, England2.2 km
  • Colkirkvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.3 km
  • Pudding Nortonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK1.1 km
  • Duntonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Sculthorpevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK2.7 km
  • East Raynhamvillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.7 km