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Yaxham

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

Yaxham
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The place

Yaxham is a village and civil parish in centre of the English county of Norfolk. The parish includes the village of Yaxham, together with the neighbouring community of Clint Green and the hamlet of Brakefield Green. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Dereham and 20 miles (32 km) west of Norwich.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yaxham

7 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
    Church of St Peter

    St Peter's Church is the parish church of Yaxham in Norfolk, England, in the benefice of Mattishall and the Tudd Valley, and in the Diocese of Norwich. It is a round-tower church, dating mostly from the medieval period.

    200 m · Grade I listed church in Yaxham, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Reymerston Hall

    Reymerston Hall is a listed Georgian house in Norfolk, England. It is a Georgian building listed as Grade II on the English Heritage Register.

    3.8 km · building in Garvestone, Breckland, Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Potter and Scarning Fens, East Dereham

    Potter and Scarning Fens, East Dereham is a 6.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Dereham in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation.

    2.8 km · site of special scientific interest in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Scarning Fen

    Scarning Fen is a 4-hectare nature reserve west in Dereham in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

    3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Badley Moor

    Badley Moor is an 18.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Dereham in Norfolk, England. It is part of the Norfolk Valley Fens Special Area of Conservation.

    1.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mattishall Moor

    Mattishall Moor is a 5.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Dereham in Norfolk, England. This area of calcareous fen and marshy grassland has a rich variety of flora.

    2.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rosie Curston's Meadow, Mattishall

    Rosie Curston's Meadow is a 2.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Mattishall in Norfolk, England. This unimproved calcareous clay meadow is managed by cattle grazing.

    3.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Yaxham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 99 km · London Luton (LTN), 126 km · East Midlands (EMA), 156 km
Stations
Dereham railway station, 2.9 km · Yaxham railway station, 500 m
  • London, Essex → Yaxham
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £16–21
  • London → Yaxham
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £16–21
  • Luton, Luton → Yaxham
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Yaxham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no passenger ferry terminals in Norfolk.
  • Get inGreater Anglia, Stena Line and Nederlandse Spoorwegen run a "Rail and Sail to Holland" deal, which includes travel to any Greater Anglia station from Harwich International Port, following the ferry trip from Hook of Holland.

From Wikivoyage: Norfolk (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    269 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    278 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    420 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    513 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    546 km

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

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