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Wretham

Wretham is a civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England.

Wretham
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The place

Wretham is a civil parish in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. The parish includes the village of East Wretham, which is about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Thetford and 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Norwich. It also includes the villages of Illington and Stonebridge. The parish has an area of 32.25 km2 (12.45 sq mi). The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 374 people in 141 households.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wretham

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
    Cranberry Rough, Hockham

    Cranberry Rough is an 81.1-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the parish of Hockham, east of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, and the Great Eastern Pingo Trail, which is a Local Nature Reserve, goes through the site.

    3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Great Eastern Pingo Trail

    Great Eastern Pingo Trail is 9.2 kilometres long footpath along a disused railway line north of Thetford in Norfolk. It is a 4.2-hectare Local Nature Reserve, and it crosses three Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Thompson Water, Carr and Common, Breckland Forest and Cranberry Rough, Hockham.

    3.2 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wretham Park Meres

    Wretham Park Meres is a 30-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Thetford in Norfolk, England. This site consists of four natural lakes, Mickle Mere, Hill Mere, Rush Mere and West Mere, which provide a breeding habitat for wildfowl such as mallards, gadwalls, shovelers, tufted ducks and teal.

    1.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wretham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 77 km · London Luton (LTN), 105 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 142 km
Stations
Wretham and Hockham railway station, 1.3 km
  • London, Essex → Wretham
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–17
  • Luton, Luton → Wretham
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–15
  • London → Wretham
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wretham

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 Wretham. 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
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    247 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    519 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    553 km

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

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