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West Bilney

West Bilney is a village and former civil parish on the A47 road, 32 miles (51 km) west of Norwich, now in the parish of East Winch, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England.

West Bilney
West Bilney · Wikimedia Commons
The place

West Bilney is a village and former civil parish on the A47 road, 32 miles (51 km) west of Norwich, now in the parish of East Winch, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 188. Its church is dedicated to St Cecilia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Bilney

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
    Gayton Hall

    Gayton Hall is a country house in the parish of Gayton near King's Lynn in Norfolk.

    4 km · English country house in Gayton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    East Winch Common

    East Winch Common is a 26.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is common land and is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    1.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    East Walton and Adcock's Common

    East Walton and Adcock's Common is a 62.4-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site and part of Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation These commons have periglacial depressions separated by chalk ridges.

    2.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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 West Bilney

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 94 km · London Luton (LTN), 111 km · East Midlands (EMA), 126 km
Stations
East Winch railway station, 2.3 km · Narborough and Pentney railway station, 3.2 km · Bilney railway station, 800 m
  • London, Essex → West Bilney
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £15–21
  • Luton, Luton → West Bilney
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £13–17
  • London → West Bilney
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Bilney

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 West Bilney. 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

    258 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    488 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    521 km

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Around it

Next door to West Bilney

  • Gaytonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.5 km
  • East Winchvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • East Waltonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK2.9 km
  • Pentneyvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom1.6 km
  • Gayton Thorpevillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.2 km