Whitlingham
Whitlingham is a small hamlet and former civil parish at the mouth of the River Wensum, now in the parish of Kirby Bedon, in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England.

Whitlingham is a small hamlet and former civil parish at the mouth of the River Wensum, now in the parish of Kirby Bedon, in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. It is located 3 miles (5 km) east of Norwich, on the south bank of the River Yare, reached from Trowse along Whitlingham Lane. In 1931 the parish had a population of 99. On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Kirby Bedon.
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Worth seeing in and around Whitlingham
10 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.
- 01Carrow Road
Carrow Road is a football stadium in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and is the home of EFL Championship club Norwich City. The stadium is east of the city, near Norwich railway station and the River Wensum.
3.3 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Cow Tower
The Cow Tower is an artillery tower by the River Wensum in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Built between 1398 and 1399 by the city authorities in response to the threat from France and indigenous English rebels, the tower was intended to defend the north-eastern approach to Norwich with hand cannons and bombards.
3.7 km · Medieval artillery tower in Norwich, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Pull's Ferry
Pulls Ferry is a former ferry house located on the River Wensum in Norwich, Norfolk, England. It is a flint building and was once a 15th-century watergate.
3.7 km · building in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St John the Theologian's Church
The Church of St John the Baptist and the Holy Sepulchre, usually shortened to St John de Sepulchre or St Sepulchre, and known as St John the Theologian during its more recent use by the Orthodox Church, is a Grade I listed redundant parish church on Ber Street and Finkelgate in Norwich, England. Having existed since prior to the Norman Conquest in 1066, It became part of the Church of England, then after its 1984 redundancy was an Eastern Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2009, and finally re-opened for secular use.
3.9 km · church in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Helen
St Helen's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Norwich.
3.9 km · church in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Thorpe Marshes
Thorpe Marshes is a 25-hectare nature reserve east of Norwich in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
900 m · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Bishop Bridge
Bishop Bridge is a grade II* listed medieval bridge of brick, stone and flint across the River Wensum in Norwich, England. It is the only remaining medieval bridge in the city, located at the east end of the street Bishopsgate, east of the Norwich Cathedral.
3.6 km · bridge in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Carrow Abbey
Carrow Abbey is a former Benedictine priory in Bracondale, southeast Norwich, England. The village on the site used to be called Carrow and gives its name to Carrow Road, the football ground of Norwich F.C., located just metres to the north.
3.2 km · Grade I listed abbey in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Trowse Bridge
Trowse Swing Bridge is the name of three railway bridges which have carried the Great Eastern Main Line over the River Wensum just outside Norwich in Norfolk, England.
2.8 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10St Etheldreda's Church, Norwich
St Etheldreda's Church is a Grade I listed redundant parish church in the Church of England in Norwich. Located on King Street, It is one of four surviving round-towered churches in the city, the others being St Julian's, St Mary Coslany and St Benedict's.
3.7 km · church in Norwich, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Whitlingham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 112 km · London Luton (LTN), 144 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 178 km
- Stations
- Norwich railway station, 3.5 km · Whitlingham railway station, 1 km · Trowse railway station, 3.1 km
- London, Essex → Whitlingham160 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–23
- London → Whitlingham160 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–23
- Luton, Luton → Whitlingham147 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
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No local-transport research exists yet for Whitlingham
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 Whitlingham. 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 Whitlingham – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Whitlingham
- Broadlandlocal government district in Norfolk, England1.7 km
- Thorpe St Andrewtown in Norfolk, England, UK2.1 km
- Framingham Pigotvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.8 km
- Trowsevillage in Norfolk, UK2.9 km
- Bramertonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, UK3.2 km
- Kirby Bedonvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England, UK1.9 km