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Scole

Scole is a village on the Norfolk–Suffolk border in England.

Scole
Scole · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Scole is a village on the Norfolk–Suffolk border in England. It is 19 miles south of Norwich and lay on the old Roman road to Venta Icenorum, which was the main road until it was bypassed with a dual carriageway. It covers an area of 14.31 km2 (5.53 sq mi) and had a population of 1,339 in 563 households at the 2001 census; the population had increased to 1,367 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Scole

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
    St Andrew's Church, Frenze

    St Andrew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the civil parish of Scole, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.1 km · church in Frenze, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St George's Church, Shimpling

    St George's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Shimpling, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.8 km · church in Shimpling, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Corn Hall

    The Corn Hall is a commercial building in St Nicholas Street, Diss, Norfolk, England. The structure, which is now used as an arts centre, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.6 km · house in Diss, South Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Edmund's Monument

    St Edmund's Memorial, Hoxne is a memorial which claims to mark the spot where St Edmund was killed by the Vikings in the Suffolk village of Hoxne. The monument is a Grade II listed building located in a field 95m east of Abbey Hill.

    4 km · memorial to St Edmund in Hoxne, Sussex, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Scole

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 83 km · London Luton (LTN), 118 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 149 km
Stations
Diss railway station, 2.3 km
  • London, Essex → Scole
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £15–19
  • London → Scole
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £15–19
  • Luton, Luton → Scole
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Scole

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 Scole. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    253 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    276 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    422 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    544 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    578 km

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

Around it

Next door to Scole

  • Disstown in Norfolk, England3.7 km
  • Hoxnevillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3.5 km
  • Palgravevillage in Suffolk, England3.3 km
  • Brome and Oakleycivil parish in Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, England1.8 km
  • Stustonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2 km
  • Dickleburghvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.9 km