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Surlingham

Surlingham is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk situated on the Broads in eastern United Kingdom.

Surlingham
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The place

Surlingham is a village and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk situated on the Broads in eastern United Kingdom. It lies approximately 6½ miles south-east of Norwich on the south bank of the River Yare between Bramerton and Rockland St Mary. In the 2001 census it contained 266 households and a population of 637, increasing to 725 at the 2011 census. Although Surlingham is part of South Norfolk District, as in other broadland villages those areas of the village adjacent to the river and broads fall into the executive area of the Broads Authority.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Surlingham

6 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
    Claxton Castle

    Claxton Castle in the village of Claxton, Norfolk, is a ruined brick castle some 13 km southeast of Norwich.

    3.5 km · castle in Claxton, South Norfolk, England,UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John the Baptist's Church, Hellington

    St John the Baptist's Church is a redundant Anglican church standing to the south of the village of Hellington, 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.

    3.4 km · church in Hellington, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Michael

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Church of England parish church in Braydeston, Brundall, Norfolk. The church is a Grade I listed building and dates from the 13th century.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Braydeston, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Yare Broads and Marshes

    Yare Broads and Marshes is a 744.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Norwich in Norfolk, England. Part of the site is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I and most of it is in the Mid-Yare National Nature Reserve.

    2.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum

    The Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum in Strumpshaw, Norfolk, is home to a collection of traction engines, steam rollers, a showman's engine and a steam wagon which are run on special occasions and on the last Sunday of each month from April to October. The Hall itself is Grade II listed, and in the grounds are a touring caravan site.

    3.2 km · museum in Strumpshaw, Norfolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bramerton Pits

    Bramerton Pits is a 0.7-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of the village of Bramerton in Norfolk, England, on the southern banks of the River Yare. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

    1.8 km · site of Special Interest in Norfolk, England · 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 Surlingham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 114 km · London Luton (LTN), 146 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 180 km
Stations
Brundall railway station, 2.1 km · Buckenham railway station, 3.7 km · Brundall Gardens railway station, 1.8 km
  • London, Essex → Surlingham
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £17–23
  • London → Surlingham
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Surlingham
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Surlingham

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    250 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    284 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    447 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    540 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    572 km

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

Around it

Next door to Surlingham

  • Brundallvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK2.3 km
  • Blofieldvillage and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England3.8 km
  • Rockland St Maryvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England2.4 km
  • Strumpshawvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.9 km
  • Bramertonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.1 km
  • Hellingtonvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.3 km