Village in Norfolk, England

Hethersett

Hethersett is a small village in Norfolk county, UK, with a population of 7,021 at the 2021 census.

Plan a trip to Hethersett→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Hethersett
150 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £16–21
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London → Hethersett
150 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £16–21
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Luton, Luton → Hethersett
135 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Hethersett, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Hethersett has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 102 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesNature Trail (Th, Su), 20 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

52.600°, 1.177°

It covers an area of 2.489 km2, with a population density of 3,163 per km2. The village received the Big Society Award in 2013 for its "work in keeping the Olympic legacy alive."

How locals move

Getting around Hethersett the local way

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. Last edited 2026-07.

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