Shipdham
Shipdham is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district, in Norfolk, England, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south-south-west of Dereham.
Shipdham is a village and civil parish in the Breckland district, in Norfolk, England, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south-south-west of Dereham. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 2,145 in 899 households, falling at the 2011 Census to a population of 2,057 in 899 households. It covers an area of 18.69 km2 (7.22 sq mi).
It is also known to be the longest village in Norfolk.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Shipdham
3 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.
- 01St Mary's Church, East Bradenham
St Mary's Church, East Bradenham, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Bradenham, 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.
3.1 km · church in East Bradenham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Potter's Carr, Cranworth
Potter's Carr, Cranworth is a 6.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Dereham in Norfolk, England. This area of alder carr and wet pasture is on the bank of the River Blackwater.
3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 03Letton Hall
Letton Hall is a Grade II listed eighteenth-century Neoclassical stately home designed by Sir John Soane for the Gurdon family between 1783 and 1789. It is located at Letton near Shipdham, Norfolk.
1.9 km · house in Cranworth, Breckland, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shipdham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 94 km · London Luton (LTN), 120 km · East Midlands (EMA), 151 km
- Stations
- Shipdham Airfield, 2 km
- London, Essex → Shipdham143 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £15–20
- London → Shipdham143 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Shipdham122 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £13–17
- 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 Shipdham
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 Shipdham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk.
- Get inGreater Anglia, Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen run a "Rail and Sail to Holland" deal, which includes travel to any Greater Anglia station from Harwich International Port, following the ferry trip from Hook of Holland.
From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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