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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.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Carrow 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
  2. 02
    Cow 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
  3. 03
    Pull'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
  4. 04
    St 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
  5. 05
    Church 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
  6. 06
    Thorpe 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
  7. 07
    Bishop 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
  8. 08
    Carrow 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
  9. 09
    Trowse 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
  10. 10
    St 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 → Whitlingham
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–23
  • London → Whitlingham
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–23
  • Luton, Luton → Whitlingham
    147 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    253 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    443 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    536 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    568 km

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