Village in Norfolk, England

West Runton

West Runton is a village in North Norfolk, England, on the North Sea coast.

Plan a trip to West Runton→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → West Runton
184 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · £20–26
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London → West Runton
184 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · £20–26
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Luton, Luton → West Runton
163 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £18–24
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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 West Runton, 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 West Runton has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 136 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesSeal Trip Route, 17 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. Nearest place with more: Norwich, 35 km.

52.938°, 1.244°

West Runton and East Runton together form the parish of Runton. The village straddles the A149 North Norfolk coast road and is 2+1⁄2 miles west of Cromer and 1+1⁄2 miles east of Sheringham.

How locals move

Getting around West Runton the local way

Get aroundFerry tours depart from Morston Quay, in the next village.

From Wikivoyage: Cley 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: Kolforn (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.