Rackheath
Rackheath is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and is roughly 6 miles north-east of Norwich city centre. It covers an area of 7.52 km2 and had a population of 1,551 in 625 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 1,972 in 762 households at the 2011 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,630 residents
- Description: village in Norfolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Rackheath, Norfolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salhouse railway station and Holy Trinity Church and Centre.
Salhouse railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Salhouse railway station is on the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the village of Salhouse. It is the next station along the line from Norwich, 5 miles 74 chains from that terminus; the following station is Hoveton & Wroxham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thorpe End and Little Plumstead.
Thorpe End
Village
Photo: Craig Tuck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorpe End is a village, which is situated 1½ miles south of Rackheath.
Little Plumstead
Village
Great and Little Plumstead is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, consisting of the villages of Great Plumstead, Little Plumstead and Thorpe End. Plumstead is located 4.2 miles south of Wroxham and 5.2 miles east of Norwich. Little Plumstead is situated 2 miles southeast of Rackheath.
Sprowston
Suburb
Photo: Nhojjohn, Public domain.
Sprowston is a town and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England. It is bounded by Heartsease to the east, Mousehold Heath and the suburb of New Sprowston to the south, Old Catton to the west, and by the open farmland of Beeston St Andrew to the north. Sprowston is situated 2½ miles southwest of Rackheath.
Rackheath
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Rackheath, Broadland, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.67385° or 52° 40′ 26″ northLongitude
1.37364° or 1° 22′ 25″ eastPopulation
1,630Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB EAHOpen location code
9F43M9FF+GFOpenStreetMap ID
node 443735471OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Rackheath” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “রেকহেথ”
- Catalan: “Rackheath”
- Cebuano: “Rackheath”
- Chinese: “拉克希斯”
- Dutch: “Rackheath”
- French: “Rackheath”
- German: “Rackheath”
- Gujarati: “રેકહીથ”
- Irish: “Rackheath”
- Italian: “Rackheath”
- Japanese: “ラックヒース”
- Kannada: “ರಾಕ್ಹೀಥ್”
- Korean: “래케츠”
- Ladin: “Rackheath”
- Lithuanian: “Rakhitas”
- Persian: “رکهیت”
- Polish: “Rackheath”
- Portuguese: “Rackheath”
- Russian: “Рэкхит”
- Spanish: “Rackheath”
- Swedish: “Rackheath”
- Tamil: “ராக்ஹீத்”
- Telugu: “రాక్హీత్”
- Turkish: “Rackheath”
- Urdu: “راکہیاتھ”
- Welsh: “Rackheath”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Rackheath”. Photo: Nigel Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.