Wroxham
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
Wroxham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The civil parish of Wroxham has an area of 6.21 square kilometres (2.40 sq mi), and in 2001, had a population of 1,532 in 666 households. A reduced population of 1,502 in 653 households was noted in the 2011 Census. The village is situated within the Norfolk Broads on the south side of a loop in the middle reaches of the River Bure. It lies in an elevated position above the Bure, between Belaugh Broad to the west, and Wroxham Broad to the east and south east. Wroxham is some 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north-east of Norwich, to which it is linked by the A1151 road. The village and broad lie in an area of fairly intensive agriculture, with areas of wet woodland adjoining the broad and river. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Broadland although the river, broad and their immediate environs fall within the executive area of the Broads Authority. The villages of Hoveton and Wroxham are connected together by the road bridge that crosses the Bure.
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Worth seeing in and around Wroxham
6 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.
- 01Wroxham Broad
Wroxham Broad is an area of open water alongside the River Bure near the village of Wroxham in Norfolk, England within The Broads National Park. The Norfolk Broads were formed by the flooding of ancient peat workings.
900 m · freshwater lake in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Salhouse Broad
Salhouse Broad, one of the Norfolk Broads, is situated on the River Bure in Norfolk, England. The broad is situated just off the river and attracts little through traffic.
2.2 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Hoveton Hall
Hoveton Hall in the parish of Hoveton in Norfolk is a Regency-style country house made of gault brick with a slate roof. It was built between 1809 and 1812, on or near the site of the previous ancient manor house of the same name, by Mrs Christabell Burroughes, daughter and heiress of Henry Negus of Hoveton Hall, an attorney, and wife of James Burkin Burroughes of Burlingham Hall, Norfolk.
2.7 km · country house in Neatishead, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04BeWILDerwood
BeWILDerwood is an adventure park for families located in Horning, a parish in the English county of Norfolk. Self-described as a "curious treehouse adventure," the attraction is situated in a woodland area and features treehouses, rope bridges, slides, zip wires, a maze, and two special areas for children under five called "Toddlewood-on-the-Hill" and "Tiptoe Valley".
2.6 km · family adventure park in Norfolk, UK · Wikipedia - 05Cockshoot Broad
Cockshoot Broad is a 5-hectare nature reserve north-east of Norwich in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
3.8 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Dydall's Mill
Dydall's, Didler's, or Miller's Mill is a tower mill at Hoveton, Norfolk, United Kingdom. It was working until burnt out in the 1910s and has been converted to residential use.
2 km · tower mill in Hoveton, North Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Wroxham Minature Worlds
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Things to do
- 01BeWILDerwood
- 02Bure Valley Railway
- 03Broadland Cycle Hire Centre
- 04Broadland Cycle Hire Automated Station
Call in advance to book and get PIN to release bike from station.
- 05Barton House Railway
- 06Wroxham Barns
Tunstead Rd, Hoveton, NR12 8QU, info@wroxhambarns.co.uk.
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Where to eat
- 01Ken's Traditional Fish & Chips
- 02The Old Mill
- 03Yim Siam
- 04Wherryman's
- 05The Station Smokehouse
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Getting to Wroxham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 121 km · London Luton (LTN), 152 km · East Midlands (EMA), 185 km
- Stations
- Salhouse railway station, 3.7 km · Hoveton and Wroxham railway station, 1.1 km · Wroxham railway station, 1.2 km
- London, Essex → Wroxham169 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £18–24
- London → Wroxham169 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £18–24
- Luton, Luton → Wroxham154 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £16–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wroxham
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 Wroxham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Wroxham
- Horningvillage and civil parish in Norfolk, England3.8 km
- Hovetonvillage in Norfolk, England, UK800 m
- Woodbastwickvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.4 km
- Ashmanhaughvillage in Norfolk, England, UK3.3 km
- Belaugha village located in Broadland, United Kingdom2 km