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

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.
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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.
- 01Cranberry 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 - 02Great 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 - 03Wretham 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 → Wretham125 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–17
- Luton, Luton → Wretham107 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–15
- London → Wretham125 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–17
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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.
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Next door to Wretham
- Illingtonvillage in Norfolk, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Stonebridgevillage in Norfolk, England, UK1.2 km