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Alderford Common

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Alderford Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, covering 0.17 km². The county has 140 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. Other SSSIs nearby include Swannington Upgate Common, Whitwell Common and Buxton Heath. The nearest railway station is Norwich, about 14.6 km to the south-east.

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Photo of the River Wensum, a 44-mile river running from near Fakenham to River Yare at Norwich, eastern England.

River Wensum

River

Norfolk's chalk river, looping past watermills and grazing marsh through Fakenham and Norwich to meet the Yare.

0.9 km SW · Norfolk

Photo of St Agnes, Cawston, a church in Norfolk, eastern England.

St Agnes, Cawston

Church near Cawston

Medieval wool church whose hammerbeam roof carries a flight of six-foot carved angels in original colours.

5.4 km N

Photo along the Weavers' Way, a 61-mile long-distance path running from Cromer to Great Yarmouth, eastern England.

Weavers' Way

Long-distance path

Cromer to Great Yarmouth by old railway lines and marsh — Blickling, Hickling Broad and the wide Halvergate levels.

10.5 km NE · Norfolk

Photo of Blickling Hall, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Aylsham, Norfolk, eastern England.Highlight

Blickling Hall

House & garden near Aylsham

Symmetrical red-brick Jacobean mansion and yew hedges.

11.5 km NE

Photo of the River Bure, a river navigation running from Coltishall to Great Yarmouth, eastern England.

River Bure

River navigation

The main river of the northern Broads, from Coltishall past Wroxham and Horning to Breydon Water at Great Yarmouth.

12.4 km E · Norfolk

Photo of Eaton Park, a Grade II* registered house & garden near Norwich, Norfolk, eastern England.

Eaton Park

House & garden near Norwich

Norwich's largest historic park of the 1920s, centred on a copper-domed rotunda.

13.3 km SE