Suffolk
Forest Heath District
Santon Downham

Santon

Santon is a depopulated village near , in the civil parish of , in the district, in , England. Moated earthworks and other remains of the medieval village are a scheduled monument.
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Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Dwelling
  • Description: village in Norfolk, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Santon, Norfolk”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Thetford Forest and All Saints.

Photo: Kelly, CC0.
is the largest lowland pine forest in and is located in a region straddling the north of and the south of in . It covers over 19,000 ha in the form of a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Church
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church.

Heath
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in , England. It lies 8 km north east from in the . It was worked between c. is situated 2 miles northwest of Santon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santon Downham and Brandon.

Hamlet
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of in eastern . In 2005 it had a population of 240. The village is located within on a meander of the River Little Ouse on the -Suffolk border. is 4 miles southeast and the nearest railway station is in 2 miles west.

Town
Photo: Oxyman, CC BY 2.5.
is a town and civil parish in the county of . is located in the area of Suffolk in the extreme north-west of the county, close to the adjoining county of . is situated 3 miles west of Santon.

Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.
is a town of 24,000 people in , . contains the ruins of Castle and Priory, which was closed during the Reformation.

Santon

Latitude
52.45256° or 52° 27′ 9″ north
Longitude
0.69133° or 0° 41′ 29″ east
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
Open location code
9F42FM3R+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2751586713
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­isolated_dwelling
Geo­Names ID
2638519
Wiki­data ID
Q16875766
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Swedish—“Santon” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Santon, Norfolk”
  • French: “Santon”
  • Irish: “Santon”
  • Swedish: “Santon, Norfolk”
  • Swedish: “Santon”

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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 “Santon”. Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.