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Wighton

Wighton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Wighton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some 3.7 mi (6.0 km) south of the town of Wells-next-the-Sea, 7.5 mi (12.1 km) north of the town of Fakenham, and 28 mi (45 km) north-west of the city of Norwich. The medieval pilgrimage centre of Walsingham lies 3 km (1.9 mi) to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wighton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 123 km · London Luton (LTN), 144 km · East Midlands (EMA), 149 km
  • London, Essex → Wighton
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
  • London → Wighton
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Wighton
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wighton

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 Wighton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe route follows mainly minor roads and some off-road paths along the coastline, and is signposted: from the south: Norwich and Dover, Kent from the west: King's Lynn and Tain, Highland.
  • Get aroundMost parts of Wells are accessible on foot, using pavements, off-road footpaths or shopping streets.
  • Get aroundWells Beach is over a mile to the north of Wells Quay, accessible using off-road footpaths, with its own car park.

From Wikivoyage: Wells-next-the-Sea, 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
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    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    276 km
  2. 02
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    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    290 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    426 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    490 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    522 km

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