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Morston

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

Morston
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The place

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

It covers an area of 8.68 km2 (3.35 sq mi) and had a population of 86 in 42 households at the 2001 census. The population remained less than 100 at the 2011 Census and was included in the civil parish of Blakeney. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of North Norfolk.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Morston

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
    Blakeney Chapel

    Blakeney Chapel is a ruined building on the coast of North Norfolk, England. Despite its name, it was probably not a chapel, nor is it in the adjoining village of Blakeney, but rather in the parish of Cley next the Sea.

    3.8 km · Ruined building on the North Norfolk coast of England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Nicholas Church, Blakeney

    St Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Blakeney, Norfolk, in the deanery of Holt and the Diocese of Norwich. The church was founded in the 13th century, but the greater part of the church dates from the 15th century when Blakeney was a seaport of some importance.

    2.5 km · church in Blakeney, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wiveton Hall

    Wiveton Hall is a country house in Wiveton, Norfolk, England. It is Grade II* listed.

    3.1 km · grade II listed country house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Blakeney Guildhall

    Blakeney Guildhall is a building in the coastal village of Blakeney in the north of the county of Norfolk. The property is in the care of English Heritage but is managed by the local parish council.

    2 km · medieval building in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St John the Baptist

    St John the Baptist and St Mary's Church is the parish church of Stiffkey in the English county of Norfolk. It is dedicated to St John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary; the double dedication is the result of, historically, there being two churches in the churchyard.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Stiffkey, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cockthorpe Common, Stiffkey

    Cockthorpe Common, Stiffkey is a 7.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Morston Cliff

    Morston Cliff is a 1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    1.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Stiffkey Valley

    Stiffkey Valley is a 44.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

    2.6 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Wiveton Downs

    Wiveton Downs is a 28.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Wiveton, west of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk. Part of it is a Geological Conservation Review site, and an area of 6.5-hectare is a Local Nature Reserve.

    2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Seals. From Morston, take a ferry to see the seals at Blakeney Point for listing and further information of seal colony and viewing trips.

  1. 01
    Holkham National Nature Reserve

    At 3,900 hectares (9,600 acres), England's largest national nature reserve, comprising of grazing marsh, woodland, salt marsh, sand dunes and foreshore.

  2. 02
    Holkham Hall

    Wells-next-the-Sea, NR23 1AB, visitorinformation@holkham.co.uk.

  3. 03
    Holkham Beach

    Vast, unspoilt sands backed by dunes and pine forest—often ranked among England’s finest beaches.

From Wikivoyage: Morston, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Wells and Walsingham Light Railway

    Wells Next-the-Sea NR23 1QB (on A149), wellswalsinghamrailway@gmail.com.

From Wikivoyage: Morston, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Globe Inn
  2. 02
    The Picnic Hut
  3. 03
    Wells Crab House
  4. 04
    Fortune House Chinese Take Away

    16 Northfield Ln, Wells-Next-The-Sea, NR23 1LQ,.

From Wikivoyage: Morston, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Morston

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 129 km · London Luton (LTN), 151 km · East Midlands (EMA), 156 km
  • London, Essex → Morston
    15 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £2–2.5
  • London → Morston
    15 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £2–2.5
  • Luton, Luton → Morston
    60 km · quickest by road, 2h · £10–13
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Morston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFerry tours depart from Morston Quay, in the next village.

From Wikivoyage: Cley next the Sea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    493 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    525 km

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

Around it

Next door to Morston

  • Blakeneyvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK2.1 km
  • Cley-Next-the-Seavillage in Norfolk, North Norfolk, England, UK3.7 km
  • Stiffkeyvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Langhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.6 km
  • Cockthorpehamlet in Binham, Norfolk, England3.6 km
  • Norfolk Coast AONBarea of outstanding natural beauty in England1.8 km