Stiffkey
Stiffkey is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk.
Stiffkey is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the A149 coast road, some 6 km (3.7 mi) east of Wells-next-the-Sea, 6 km (3.7 mi) west of Blakeney, and 40 km (25 mi) north-west of the city of Norwich.
The civil parish has an area of 14.55 km2 (5.62 sq mi) and in the 2001 census had a population of 223 in 105 households, the population falling to 209 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Stiffkey
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.
- 01Church of St John the Baptist
St John the Baptist and St Mary's Church is the parish church of Stiffkey in the English county of Norfolk. It is dedicated to St John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary; the double dedication is the result of, historically, there being two churches in the churchyard.
400 m · Grade I listed church in Stiffkey, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Cockthorpe Common, Stiffkey
Cockthorpe Common, Stiffkey is a 7.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
1.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 03Morston Cliff
Morston Cliff is a 1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
2.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 04Stiffkey Valley
Stiffkey Valley is a 44.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, England. It is in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
1.3 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Stiffkey
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 127 km · London Luton (LTN), 148 km · East Midlands (EMA), 152 km
- London, Essex → Stiffkey176 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £18–25
- London → Stiffkey176 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £18–25
- Luton, Luton → Stiffkey151 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £16–22
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No local-transport research exists yet for Stiffkey
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 Stiffkey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe route follows mainly minor roads and some off-road paths along the coastline, and is signposted: from the south: Norwich and Dover, Kent from the west: King's Lynn and Tain, Highland.
- Get aroundMost parts of Wells are accessible on foot, using pavements, off-road footpaths or shopping streets.
- Get aroundWells Beach is over a mile to the north of Wells Quay, accessible using off-road footpaths, with its own car park.
From Wikivoyage: Wells-next-the-Sea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Stiffkey
- Morstonvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.8 km
- Binhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England3.5 km
- Warhamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Cockthorpehamlet in Binham, Norfolk, England1 km