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

Hempton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, along the course of the River Wensum.
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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.
- 01Raynham 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 - 02Beacon 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
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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 → Hempton161 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–22
- London → Hempton161 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–22
- Luton, Luton → Hempton136 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £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 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.
- 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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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