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Hilgay

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

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The place

Hilgay is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Ten Mile Bank.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Hilgay 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
  2. 02
    Ryston 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
  3. 03
    St 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 → Hilgay
    122 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £13–18
  • Luton, Luton → Hilgay
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £10–14
  • London → Hilgay
    122 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    239 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    318 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    380 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    492 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    526 km

If you know how people move in Hilgay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hilgay

  • Rystonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK2.9 km
  • Southeryvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.7 km
  • Denvervillage in Norfolk, England3.3 km