Quidenham
Quidenham is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district, in the county of Norfolk, England.

Quidenham is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The parish includes the village of Wilby and the hamlet of Eccles Road. The parish covers an area of 22.51 km2 (8.69 sq mi) and had a population of 576 in 183 households at the 2001 census, falling to a population of 560 living in 189 households at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Quidenham
7 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.
- 01Banham Zoo
Banham Zoological Gardens is a 50-acre zoo in Banham, Norfolk, England. The zoo, which in 2024 was reported to be a home to more than 2,000 animals, opened to the public in 1968, became a charity in 2013, and has since been often awarded the prize of Norfolk's Top Attraction, by numerous different organisations, with an annual visitor attendance of in excess of 200,000 people.
3 km · zoo in Banham, Norfolk, England · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary the Virgin Church, Banham is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in Banham, Norfolk. The basic material of the building is the natural flint of the area, and as is usual with Norfolk churches, white freestone was sparingly used for windows and framing because it had to be brought laboriously from quarries in Northamptonshire.
3.7 km · church in Banham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Wilby Hall
Wilby Hall is a country house north of the village of Wilby, in the civil parish of Quidenham, in Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building on 9 February 1984.
2.8 km · house in Quidenham, Breckland, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Quidenham Hall
Quidenham Hall is a country house at Quidenham in Norfolk, England.
600 m · country house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Peter and St Paul
St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in East Harling, Norfolk. It is part of Harling United Benefice, a group of five churches that also includes, St Andrew, Brettenham, St Mary, Bridgham, St Ethelbert, Larling and St John the Evangelist, Rushford.
3.9 km · Grade I listed church in East Harling, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06East Harling Common
East Harling Common is a 15.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Thetford in Norfolk, England. The importance of this site lies in its pingos, periglacial ground ice depressions, and it has many scarce species of beetles.
2.9 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 07Kenninghall and Banham Fens with Quidenham Mere
Kenninghall and Banham Fens with Quidenham Mere is a 48.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Banham, in Norfolk, England. This site in the valley of the River Whittle has a lake, tall fen, wet woodland and calcareous grassland.
1.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Quidenham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 81 km · London Luton (LTN), 112 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 147 km
- Stations
- Eccles Road railway station, 2.4 km
- London, Essex → Quidenham129 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £14–19
- London → Quidenham129 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £14–19
- Luton, Luton → Quidenham115 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Quidenham
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 Quidenham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Quidenham
- Old Buckenhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk in the United Kingdom3.9 km
- Banhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.8 km
- Kenninghallvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK1.5 km
- East Harlingvillage in Norfolk, UK3.6 km
- Harlingcivil parish in Norfolk, UK3.6 km
- Wilbyvillage in Quidenham, Breckland, Norfolk, England1.1 km