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Normanton on Soar

Normanton on Soar, formerly known as Normanton-upon-Soar and known locally as Normanton, is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England near the River Soar.

Normanton on Soar
Normanton on Soar · Fitzwilliam2020
The place

Normanton on Soar, formerly known as Normanton-upon-Soar and known locally as Normanton, is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England near the River Soar. This historic village is home to one of the last operating chain ferries in the country, the only lived in cruck building in Nottinghamshire and a 13th-century Grade I listed parish Church.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Normanton on Soar

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 7 km · Birmingham (BHX), 52 km · Manchester (MAN), 92 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Normanton on Soar
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Normanton on Soar
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–18
  • London → Normanton on Soar
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £17–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Normanton on Soar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.

From Wikivoyage: Castle Donington, 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    235 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    399 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    419 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    435 km

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Next door to Normanton on Soar

Normanton on Soar is 18 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.