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Irstead

Irstead is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barton Turf, in the North Norfolk district, in the English county of Norfolk.

Irstead
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The place

Irstead is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Barton Turf, in the North Norfolk district, in the English county of Norfolk. It is 6.3 miles (10.1 km) north of Acle and 11 miles (18 km) north-east of Norwich, along the River Ant.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Irstead

9 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
    Barton Broad

    Barton Broad is a large lake that forms part of the River Ant which gives its name to a 164-hectare nature reserve north-east of Norwich in Norfolk. The reserve is owned and managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    1.1 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Barton Turf

    St Michael and All Angels is the Church of England parish church of Barton Turf in the county of Norfolk in England. See Inside here.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed church in Barton Turf, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    How Hill House

    How Hill House is a large Edwardian house in How Hill, an area of Ludham parish, Norfolk, England. The house overlooks the River Ant and is within the Broads National Park.

    1.5 km · house in Ludham, North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    RAF Air Defence Radar Museum

    The Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum is a museum on the site of the former Royal Air Force radar and control base RAF Neatishead, close to the village of Horning in Norfolk, England. The museum's exhibitions cover the history of air defence in the United Kingdom, in particular the development of radar from the 1930s until the end of the Cold War.

    2.6 km · military museum in Norfolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Alderfen Broad

    Alderfen Broad is a 21.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Norwich in Norfolk, England. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    1.4 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ant Broads and Marshes

    Ant Broads and Marshes is a 745.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Norwich in Norfolk, England. Most of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 1, and it is part of the Broadland Ramsar and Special Protection Area, and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.

    1.1 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Catherine, Ludham

    St Catherine's Church is a Church of England church in Ludham, Norfolk. It is noted for its tympanum and rood screen, both painted and both pre-reformation survivals.

    3.1 km · church in Ludham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    How Hill Mill

    How Hill Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Ludham, Norfolk, United Kingdom. It was built in 1825 and has been converted to residential use.

    1.5 km · mill building in Ludham, North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Neaves Mill At Tg 36451759

    Neave's or Kittle's Mill is a Grade II listed tower mill in Horning, Norfolk, United Kingdom. A drainage mill built c.1870, it has been conserved by the Norfolk Windmills Trust.

    2.8 km · mill building in Horning, North Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Irstead

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 127 km · London Luton (LTN), 159 km · East Midlands (EMA), 191 km
Stations
Catfield railway station, 3.1 km
  • London, Essex → Irstead
    176 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £19–25
  • London → Irstead
    176 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £19–25
  • Luton, Luton → Irstead
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h · £17–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Irstead

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 Irstead. 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

    241 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    457 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    535 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    567 km

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

Around it

Next door to Irstead

  • Horningvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England4 km
  • Ludhamvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.2 km
  • Barton Turfvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.4 km
  • Catfieldvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.6 km
  • Neatisheadvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.4 km
  • Ludham Bridgehamlet in Norfolk, England, UK3.3 km