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Illington

Illington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wretham, in the Breckland district, in the English county of Norfolk.

Illington
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The place

Illington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wretham, in the Breckland district, in the English county of Norfolk.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Illington

2 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
    Cranberry Rough, Hockham

    Cranberry Rough is an 81.1-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Hockham, east of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and the Great Eastern Pingo Trail, which is a Local Nature Reserve, goes through the site.

    3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Great Eastern Pingo Trail

    Great Eastern Pingo Trail is 9.2 kilometres long footpath along a disused railway line north of Thetford in Norfolk. It is a 4.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve, and it crosses three Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Thompson Water, Carr and Common, Breckland Forest and Cranberry Rough, Hockham.

    3.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Illington

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 78 km · London Luton (LTN), 107 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 144 km
Stations
Harling Road railway station, 3.6 km · Wretham and Hockham railway station, 2.3 km
  • London, Essex → Illington
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £13–18
  • London → Illington
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £13–18
  • Luton, Luton → Illington
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Illington

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 Illington. 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

    249 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    290 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    407 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    522 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    555 km

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

Around it

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