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Rackheath

Rackheath is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and is roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Norwich city centre.

Rackheath
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The place

Rackheath is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and is roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Norwich city centre. It covers an area of 7.52 km2 (2.90 sq mi) and had a population of 1,551 in 625 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 1,972 in 762 households at the 2011 Census.

For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland. It is the site of a proposed new eco-town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rackheath

One place 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
    Crostwick Marsh

    Crostwick Marsh is an 11.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Crostwick, north of Norwich in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Broadland Ramsar site and Special Protection Area, and The Broads Special Area of Conservation.

    3.1 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 Rackheath

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 117 km · London Luton (LTN), 148 km · East Midlands (EMA), 182 km
Stations
Salhouse railway station, 1.4 km
  • London, Essex → Rackheath
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–23
  • London → Rackheath
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Rackheath
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rackheath

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    251 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    288 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    446 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    532 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    565 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rackheath

  • Sprowstonsuburban town in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Salhousevillage in Norfolk, England, UK1.9 km
  • Spixworthvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK3.3 km
  • Crostwickvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.2 km
  • Beeston St Andrewcivil parish in Norfolk, England, UK2.2 km
  • Thorpe Endvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.9 km