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Barsham
Civil parish in the English county of Norfolk

Barsham

Barsham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and includes the villages of East Barsham, North Barsham, West Barsham and Houghton St Giles.

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The villages are all situated within 2 miles (3.2 km) miles of each other, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the town of Fakenham and 28 miles (45 km) north-west of the city of Norwich. The headwaters of the River Stiffkey flow through both East and North Barsham and Houghton St Giles.

How locals move

Getting around Barsham the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: LouProz (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.