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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
Herringfleet · Bernd Jatzwauk Pommes104
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Somerleyton 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
  2. 02
    Church 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
  3. 03
    Somerleyton 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 → Herringfleet
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £18–24
  • London → Herringfleet
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · £18–24
  • Luton, Luton → Herringfleet
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    238 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    289 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    459 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    558 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    590 km

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