Herringfleet
Herringfleet is a place and former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, in the East Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk.

Herringfleet is a place and former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet, in the East Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is located 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north-west of Lowestoft. The parish was combined with Somerleyton and Ashby to create the parish of "Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet" on 1 April 1987.
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Worth seeing in and around Herringfleet
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.
- 01Somerleyton Hall
Somerleyton Hall is a country house and 5,000-acre estate near Somerleyton in Suffolk, England. The hall is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England, and its landscaped park and formal gardens are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
1.6 km · grade II* listed house in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary
St Mary the Virgin Church is located in the village of Blundeston near Lowestoft. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lothingland, part of the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and the Diocese of Norwich.
3.7 km · church in Blundeston, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Somerleyton Swing Bridge
Somerleyton Swing Bridge is a railway swing bridge over the River Waveney on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. It was built in 1905 to carry the double tracked Norwich to Lowestoft Line over the river, replacing a previous single tracked bridge.
1.3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Herringfleet
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 120 km · London Luton (LTN), 155 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 170 km
- Stations
- Somerleyton railway station, 1.5 km · Haddiscoe railway station, 1.9 km · Haddiscoe High Level railway station, 1.8 km · St Olaves railway station, 2.2 km
- London, Essex → Herringfleet164 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £18–24
- London → Herringfleet164 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £18–24
- Luton, Luton → Herringfleet157 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £16–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Herringfleet
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 Herringfleet. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Herringfleet
- Blundestonvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England4 km
- Haddiscoevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.5 km
- Loundvillage and civil parish in East Suffolk, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleetcivil parish in Suffolk, UK1 km
- Somerleytonvillage in Suffolk, United Kingdom1 km
- Fritton and St Olavescivil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2 km