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Whinburgh and Westfield

Whinburgh and Westfield is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

The place

Whinburgh and Westfield is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Its settlements are the small villages of Whinburgh and Westfield. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland. The civil parish lies to the south of the town of Dereham; Whinburgh village is about 3 miles (5 km) from the centre of the town. The parish population at the 2021 census was 390.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whinburgh and Westfield

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
    Badley Moor

    UK Site of Special Scientific Interest

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mattishall Moor

    UK Site of Special Scientific Interest

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Peter

    Grade I listed church in Yaxham, Norfolk, England, UK

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Reymerston Hall

    Building in Garvestone, Breckland, Norfolk, England, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Potter and Scarning Fens, East Dereham

    Site of special scientific interest in Norfolk, England

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Scarning Fen

    Park in United Kingdom

    3.3 km · 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 Whinburgh and Westfield

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 98 km · London Luton (LTN), 124 km · East Midlands (EMA), 155 km
Stations
Dereham railway station, 3.8 km · Shipdham Airfield, 3.6 km · Thuxton railway station, 3.8 km · Yaxham railway station, 800 m
  • London, Essex → Whinburgh and Westfield
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £15–21
  • London → Whinburgh and Westfield
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £15–21
  • Luton, Luton → Whinburgh and Westfield
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whinburgh and Westfield

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 Whinburgh and Westfield. 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

    268 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    278 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    419 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    513 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    546 km

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

Around it

Next door to Whinburgh and Westfield

  • Brecklandnon-metropolitan district in Norfolk, England2.3 km
  • Yaxhamvillage in Norfolk, England, UK1.3 km
  • Garvestonevillage in Breckland District, Norfolk, England3.3 km
  • Reymerstonvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.9 km
  • Westfieldvillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom900 m
  • Brakefield Greenhamlet in Norfolk, England, UK3 km