Swainsthorpe
Swainsthorpe is a village in Norfolk, England.
Swainsthorpe is a village in Norfolk, England. It lies on the A140 road, approximately 5 miles south of Norwich, and just north of Newton Flotman. It covers an area of 3.38 km2 (1.31 sq mi) and had a population of 374 in 159 households at the 2001 census, the population reducing to 360 at the 2011 Census.
The village had two Churches, St.Peter's and St. Mary's, the latter is now in ruins.
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Worth seeing in and around Swainsthorpe
3 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.
- 01Dunston Hall Hotel
Dunston Hall Hotel is an Elizabethan Revival style Grade II listed building in the village of Dunston, Norfolk, England. It is part of the QHotels Collection group of hotels and has an AA four-star rating.
1.3 km · country house hotel in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Shotesham Common
Shotesham Common is a 21.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Norwich in Norfolk, England. This site consists of traditionally managed meadows with a variety of grassland types, ranging from permanently wet marshes on the valley bottom, where a stream runs through, to drier grassland on the slopes.
2.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 03Dunston Common
Dunston Common is a 3.8-hectare Local Nature Reserve south of Norwich in Norfolk. It is owned and managed by South Norfolk District Council.
1.6 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Swainsthorpe
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 103 km · London Luton (LTN), 135 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 170 km
- Stations
- Swainsthorpe railway station, 200 m
- London, Essex → Swainsthorpe151 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £16–21
- London → Swainsthorpe151 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £16–21
- Luton, Luton → Swainsthorpe138 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swainsthorpe
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 Swainsthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Swainsthorpe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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