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 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.
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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.
- 01Crostwick 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
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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 → Rackheath164 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–23
- London → Rackheath164 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–23
- Luton, Luton → Rackheath150 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Rackheath – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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