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Thuxton

Thuxton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton, in the Breckland district, in the county of Norfolk, England.

Thuxton
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The place

Thuxton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton, in the Breckland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is 6 miles north west of Wymondham and 5 miles south east of Dereham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thuxton

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.

  1. 01
    Reymerston Hall

    Reymerston Hall is a listed Georgian house in Norfolk, England. It is a Georgian building listed as Grade II on the English Heritage Register.

    1.9 km · building in Garvestone, Breckland, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mid-Norfolk Railway

    The Mid-Norfolk Railway is a 17+1⁄2 miles preserved standard gauge heritage railway, one of the longest in Great Britain. Preservation efforts began in 1974, but the line re-opened to passengers only in the mid-1990s as part of the "new generation" of heritage railways.

    900 m · heritage railway in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael's Church, Coston

    St Michael's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the hamlet of Coston, in the civil parish of Runhall, Norfolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3 km · church in Coston, 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 Thuxton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 97 km · London Luton (LTN), 124 km · East Midlands (EMA), 159 km
Stations
Hardingham railway station, 1.8 km · Thuxton railway station, 900 m
  • London, Essex → Thuxton
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £15–20
  • London → Thuxton
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Thuxton
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thuxton

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 Thuxton. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    267 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    276 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    421 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    518 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    551 km

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

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