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Hemsby

Hemsby is a coastal village and civil parish in the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England.

Hemsby
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The place

Hemsby is a coastal village and civil parish in the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. It is situated 8 mi (13 km) north-west of the town of Great Yarmouth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hemsby

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
    Winterton Lighthouse

    Winterton Lighthouse is located in Winterton-on-Sea in the English county of Norfolk. In 1845 Winterton Ness was described as being 'well known to the mariner as the most fatal headland between Scotland and London'.

    1.7 km · lighthouse in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Blitz and Pieces

    Blitz and Pieces is a museum in Scratby in Great Yarmouth, England, owned and operated by Darren Stride. Based on the British Home Front during World War II and the BBC comedy Dad's Army, the museum is housed in a 1940s prefabricated building, a 1930s wooden military hut and a variety of large sheds.

    2.1 km · museum in Scratby in Great Yarmouth, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hall Farm Fen, Hemsby

    Hall Farm Fen, Hemsby is a 9.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Hemsby in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Broadland Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.

    1.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hemsby

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 134 km · London Luton (LTN), 167 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 185 km
  • London, Essex → Hemsby
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £19–26
  • London → Hemsby
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £19–26
  • Luton, Luton → Hemsby
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hemsby

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    229 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    468 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    548 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    579 km

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