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Lenwade

Lenwade is a village in the civil parish of Great Witchingham, Norfolk, situated in the Wensum Valley adjacent to the A1067 road 14 miles (23 km) south-east of Fakenham and some 11 miles (18 km) north-west of Norwich.

Lenwade
Lenwade · Terry Fougler
The place

Lenwade is a village in the civil parish of Great Witchingham, Norfolk, situated in the Wensum Valley adjacent to the A1067 road 14 miles (23 km) south-east of Fakenham and some 11 miles (18 km) north-west of Norwich. The River Ainse joins the Wensum at Lenwade. It had a population of 542 in 2021.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lenwade

5 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
    Whitwell Common SSSI

    Whitwell Common is a 19.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Dereham in Norfolk, England. This common in the valley of a tributary of the River Wensum has diverse wetland flora on peat soils.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Alderford Common

    Alderford Common is a 17.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Norwich in Norfolk, England. The common has a thin layer of glacial sands and gravels over chalk.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham

    St Faith's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Little Witchingham in Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.4 km · church in Little Witchingham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Margaret's Church

    St Margaret's Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in Lyng, Norfolk. It is one of two churches that existed in the parish, the other being St Edmund's Chapel which is now a ruin.

    3.3 km · church in Lyng, Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Edmund's Chapel

    The ruins of St Edmund's Chapel are located in a field to the east of the village of Lyng in the English county of Norfolk. It was one of two religious buildings in Lyng, the other being St Margaret's Church.

    2.4 km · ruinous chapel in Lyng, Breckland, 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 Lenwade

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 110 km · London Luton (LTN), 138 km · East Midlands (EMA), 164 km
Stations
Attlebridge railway station, 2.8 km · Whitwell and Reepham railway station, 3.5 km
  • London, Essex → Lenwade
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–22
  • London → Lenwade
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–22
  • Luton, Luton → Lenwade
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lenwade

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 Lenwade. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk.
  • Get inGreater Anglia, Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen run a "Rail and Sail to Holland" deal, which includes travel to any Greater Anglia station from Harwich International Port, following the ferry trip from Hook of Holland.

From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    266 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    281 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    432 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    516 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    548 km

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Around it

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