Whissonsett
Whissonsett is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 5.0 miles south of Fakenham, 23 miles west-north-west of Norwich and 112 miles north-north-east of London.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 488 residents
- Description: village in Norfolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Whissonset” and “Whissonsett, Norfolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Church of St Edmund.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 2 miles north of Whissonsett.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxwick and Godwick.
Oxwick
Hamlet
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oxwick is a hamlet in the English county of Norfolk. It lies close to the source of the River Wensum and lies one mile south of the village of Colkirk. The hamlets name means 'Ox specialised farm'.
Godwick
Hamlet
Godwick is a deserted village in the county of Norfolk. Its location was south of Fakenham between the villages of Tittleshall and Whissonsett. There are over 200 deserted medieval villages in Norfolk, but most sites have been destroyed by ploughing, the pressures of two world wars or other agricultural uses.
East Raynham
Village
Photo: Nigel Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Raynham is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Raynham, in the North Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. East Raynham is located 4 miles south-west of Fakenham and 24 miles north-west of Norwich along the course of the River Wensum. East Raynham is situated 2½ miles northwest of Whissonsett.
Whissonsett
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Whissonsett, Breckland District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.77414° or 52° 46′ 27″ northLongitude
0.8439° or 0° 50′ 38″ eastPopulation
488Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WHXOpen location code
9F42QRFV+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 5208186379OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Whissonsett” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Whissonsett”
- Dutch: “Whissonsett”
- French: “Whissonsett”
- Irish: “Whissonsett”
- Ladin: “Whissonsett”
- Persian: “ویسسونست”
- Polish: “Whissonsett”
- Swedish: “Whissonsett”
- Turkish: “Whissonsett”
- Welsh: “Whissonsett”
- “Whissonsett”
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Notable Places Nearby
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