Necton
Necton is a village situated on a turning off the A47 main road between Swaffham and East Dereham in the Breckland district of Norfolk, England. As at the 2001 census it had a population of 1,865 residents and an area of 15.48 km2, increasing to a population of 1,923 at the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,800 residents
- Description: village in Norfolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Necton, Norfolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Saints and Church of St Andrew.
Church of St Andrew
Church
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Andrew is situated 2 miles southwest of Necton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Pickenham and Great Fransham.
North Pickenham
Village
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North Pickenham is a village in the Breckland district of mid-Norfolk, East Anglia, England. It lies three miles from the Georgian market town of Swaffham. North Pickenham is situated 2 miles southwest of Necton.
Great Fransham
Village
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Fransham is a village and former civil parish in the English county of Norfolk Great Fransham is located 5.9 miles west of Dereham and 21 miles west of Norwich. Great Fransham is situated 2½ miles northeast of Necton.
Bradenham
Village
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Bradenham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is 5 miles south-west of the town of Dereham and 19 miles west of the city of Norwich. Bradenham is situated 2½ miles east of Necton.
Necton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Necton, Breckland District, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.6514° or 52° 39′ 5″ northLongitude
0.777° or 0° 46′ 37″ eastPopulation
1,800Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)Open location code
9F42MQ2G+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 249071082OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2641833Wikidata ID
Q2451060
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Necton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Necton”
- Dutch: “Necton”
- French: “Necton”
- Irish: “Necton”
- Ladin: “Necton”
- Polish: “Necton”
- Spanish: “Necton (Norfolk)”
- Spanish: “Necton”
- Swedish: “Necton”
- Turkish: “Necton”
- Welsh: “Necton”
- “Necton”
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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 “Necton”. Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.