Hilgay
Hilgay is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

Hilgay is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Ten Mile Bank.
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Worth seeing in and around Hilgay
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.
- 01Hilgay Heronry
Hilgay Heronry is a 1.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Downham Market in Norfolk, England. This small wood has a nationally important breeding colony of grey herons, with around forty nests each year in larch and ash trees.
1.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 02Ryston Hall
Ryston Hall, Ryston, Norfolk, England is a 17th-century country house built by Sir Roger Pratt for himself. The house was constructed between 1669 and 1672 in the Carolean style.
2.8 km · country house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Church, Fordham
St Mary's Church is located to the south of the village of Fordham, Norfolk, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
1.4 km · church in Fordham, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hilgay
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 76 km · London Luton (LTN), 92 km · East Midlands (EMA), 120 km
- Stations
- Denver railway station, 3.4 km · Abbey and West Dereham railway station, 3.8 km · Hilgay railway station, 3.9 km
- London, Essex → Hilgay122 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £13–18
- Luton, Luton → Hilgay93 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–14
- London → Hilgay122 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hilgay
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 Hilgay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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