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Sparham

Sparham is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England.

Sparham
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The place

Sparham is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 7.22 km2 (2.79 sq mi) and had a population of 291 in 109 households at the 2001 census, including Bylaugh and increasing to a population of 341 in 143 households at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the Upper Wensum Ward of Breckland District Council and the Elmham and Mattishall Division of Norfolk County Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sparham

5 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 Mary's Church, Elsing

    St Mary's is an Anglican parish church in Elsing, a small village and civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. The 14th-century church was built to a single plan in Decorated Gothic style by a local knight and has remained largely unaltered to the present day.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Elsing, Breckland, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Whitwell Common SSSI

    Whitwell Common is a 19.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-east of Dereham in Norfolk, England. This common in the valley of a tributary of the River Wensum has diverse wetland flora on peat soils.

    1.7 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Margaret's Church

    St Margaret's Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in Lyng, Norfolk. It is one of two churches that existed in the parish, the other being St Edmund's Chapel which is now a ruin.

    1.8 km · church in Lyng, Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Edmund's Chapel

    The ruins of St Edmund's Chapel are located in a field to the east of the village of Lyng in the English county of Norfolk. It was one of two religious buildings in Lyng, the other being St Margaret's Church.

    2.4 km · ruinous chapel in Lyng, Breckland, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bylaugh Hall

    Bylaugh Hall, also known as Bylaugh Park, is a country house situated in the parish of Bylaugh in Norfolk, England.

    3.7 km · country house situated in the village of Bylaugh in 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 Sparham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 110 km · London Luton (LTN), 137 km · East Midlands (EMA), 161 km
Stations
Whitwell and Reepham railway station, 2.8 km
  • London, Essex → Sparham
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–23
  • London → Sparham
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Sparham
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sparham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    280 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    513 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    545 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sparham

  • Foxleyvillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Great Witchinghamvillage in Norfolk, England, UK2.9 km
  • Bawdeswellvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK2.8 km
  • Bylaughvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.8 km
  • Elsingvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.6 km
  • Lenwadevillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.3 km