Norfolk
King’s Lynn & West Norfolk District
Thornham

Thornham

Thornham is a village and civil parish in the county of . It is situated on the north Norfolk coast some 7 kilometres north-east of the seaside resort of , 30 km north of the town of and 70 km north-west of the city of .
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  • Type: Village with 496 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Norfolk, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Thornham, Norfolk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of All Saints and The Lifeboat Inn.

Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Restaurant
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a public house and inn in Ship Lane, Thornham, , . It lies near the wooded grounds of Thornham Manor. The white-painted pub was originally built in the 16th century and was a simple cottage with two outhouses, and was sometimes used in the 18th century as a convenient smugglers' store.

Nature reserve
is a near , , adjoining the Norfolk Wildlife Trust Holme Dunes reserve. It is 5 ha in extent, with Corsican pines and scrubby sand dunes as its main habitats.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brancaster and Brancaster Staithe.

Village
Photo: Martin Pearman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the English county . The civil parish of comprises itself, together with and . is situated 2½ miles east of Thornham.

Village
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brancaster is a village and civil parish on the north coast of the English county . The civil parish of Brancaster comprises Brancaster itself, together with and . is situated 3½ miles east of Thornham.

Photo: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Old and are an adjoining town and village on the coast. Known for being one of the few places on the east coast in England where the sun can be seen to set over the sea, the two places combine ancient heritage with traditional English seaside resort thrills.

Thornham

Latitude
52.96174° or 52° 57′ 42″ north
Longitude
0.58093° or 0° 34′ 51″ east
Population
496
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TRM
Open location code
9F42XH6J+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29807125
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2635986
Wiki­data ID
Q2754881
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Thornham” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Thornham (Norfolk)”
  • Basque: “Thornham”
  • Bulgarian: “Тхорнхам”
  • Cebuano: “Thornham”
  • Chinese: “索納姆”
  • Chinese: “索纳姆”
  • Dutch: “Thornham”
  • Esperanto: “Thornham”
  • French: “Thornham”
  • Irish: “Thornham”
  • Ladin: “Thornham”
  • Persian: “ثورنام، نورفک”
  • Polish: “Thornham”
  • Swedish: “Thornham”
  • Turkish: “Thornham, Norfolk”
  • Welsh: “Thornham, Norfolk”
  • Welsh: “Thornham”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thornham”. Photo: Uksignpix, CC BY-SA 3.0.