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Stowbridge

Stowbridge or Stow Bridge is a village in the parish of Stow Bardolph, extending into Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, in the English county of Norfolk.

Stowbridge
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The place

Stowbridge or Stow Bridge is a village in the parish of Stow Bardolph, extending into Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, in the English county of Norfolk. The parish of Stow Bardolph also includes Barroway Drove. Stowbridge is between Downham Market and King's Lynn on the banks of the River Great Ouse. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. The Great Ouse, the Relief Channel and the mainline railway from King's Lynn to Cambridge run through the heart of the community.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stowbridge

2 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
    Town Hall

    Downham Market Town Hall is a municipal building in Bridge Street, Downham Market, Norfolk, England. The structure, which is managed by Downham Market Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.9 km · town hall in Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's is a redundant church in the village of South Runcton, Norfolk, England. Dating from the 12th century, the church was almost entirely rebuilt between 1838 and 1839 by John Brown, the surveyor of Norwich Cathedral.

    3.6 km · church in South Runcton, 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.

Go there

Getting to Stowbridge

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 84 km · London Luton (LTN), 99 km · East Midlands (EMA), 116 km
Stations
Downham Market railway station, 3.7 km · Stow Bardolph railway station, 200 m
  • London, Essex → Stowbridge
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £14–19
  • Luton, Luton → Stowbridge
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–15
  • London → Stowbridge
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stowbridge

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 Stowbridge. 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

    246 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    317 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    382 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    485 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    519 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stowbridge

  • Wimbotshamvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.7 km
  • Runcton Holmevillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Stow Bardolphvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK2.6 km