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North Runcton

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

The place

North Runcton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 43.2 miles (69.5 km) west of Norwich, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) south-south-east of King's Lynn and 102 miles (164 km) north of London. The village is located a small distance south-west of the A47 between King's Lynn and Swaffham. The nearest railway station is at King's Lynn for the Fen Line which runs between King's Lynn and Cambridge. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. The parish of North Runcton in the 2001 census, has a population of 266, increasing to 549 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North Runcton

4 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
    Middleton Mount

    Middleton Mount, also called Middleton Motte and Middleton Castle, is the remains of a medieval castle situated in the village of Middleton, in Norfolk, England.

    1.6 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Middleton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Middleton Tower

    Middleton Towers is a privately owned country house in Norfolk, England, near the village of Middleton and about 3 miles east of King's Lynn. The hall is a Grade I listed building, and the adjacent earthworks are a scheduled monument.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Blackborough End Pit

    Blackborough End Pit is a 13.2-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    2.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Setchey SSSI

    Setchey SSSI is a 33.4-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    3.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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 North Runcton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 93 km · London Luton (LTN), 108 km · East Midlands (EMA), 119 km
Stations
Middleton Towers railway station, 3.1 km
  • London, Essex → North Runcton
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → North Runcton
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16
  • London → North Runcton
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for North Runcton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKing's Lynn town centre can be accessed from West Lynn on a small passenger ferry.
  • Get inAlthough King's Lynn has an active port, there are no regular long-distance passenger ferries.

From Wikivoyage: King's Lynn, 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

    255 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    310 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    482 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    516 km

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

Around it

Next door to North Runcton

  • West Winchvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK1.6 km
  • Middletonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.1 km
  • Leziatevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.9 km
  • South Lynnsuburb in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK3.7 km