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Shouldham

Shouldham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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The place

Shouldham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

It covers an area of 16.04 km2 (6.19 sq mi) and had a population of 608 in 246 households at the 2001 census, the population reducing slightly to 605 at the 2011 census. It also contains a church (pictured) and a primary school.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shouldham

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
    Wormegay Castle

    Wormegay Castle is a motte and bailey earthwork, located next to the village of Wormegay in the English county of Norfolk.

    3.5 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Wormegay, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 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.

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Getting to Shouldham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 87 km · London Luton (LTN), 104 km · East Midlands (EMA), 123 km
  • London, Essex → Shouldham
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–19
  • Luton, Luton → Shouldham
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–15
  • London → Shouldham
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shouldham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKing's Lynn town centre can be accessed from West Lynn on a small passenger ferry.
  • Get inAlthough King's Lynn has an active port, there are no regular long-distance passenger ferries.

From Wikivoyage: King's Lynn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    251 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    309 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    389 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    489 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    523 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shouldham

  • Marhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Stradsettvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Wormegayvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Finchamvillage in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Shouldham Thorpevillage and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, UK1.8 km