Sprowston
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.Places of Interest
Highlights include Norwich International Airport and Mousehold Heath.
Norwich International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Stavros1, Public domain.
Norwich Airport is an international airport in Hellesdon, Norfolk, England, 2.5 miles north of the city of Norwich. In 2023, Norwich Airport was the 25th busiest airport in the UK and busiest in East Anglia. Norwich International Airport is situated 2½ miles northwest of Sprowston.
Mousehold Heath
Heath
Mousehold Heath is a freely accessible area of heathland and woodland which lies to the north-east of the medieval city boundary of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norwich and Thorpe Hamlet.
Norwich
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Norwich, a two-cathedral city, is the capital of the English county of Norfolk, within the larger region of East Anglia. It lies some 185 km NNE of London, and as well as being a convenient base for exploring the Broads and the North Norfolk Coast is also…
Thorpe Hamlet
Suburb
Thorpe Hamlet is a suburb of Norwich, to the east of the city centre, in the Norwich District, in the English county of Norfolk. It was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish on 9 March 1852, from the civil parish of Old Thorpe, and in 1912, was in the rural deanery of Blofield. Thorpe Hamlet is situated 2½ miles south of Sprowston.
Sprowston
- Type: Locality
- Location: Broadland, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.6618° or 52° 39′ 42″ northLongitude
1.3336° or 1° 20′ 1″ eastElevation
85 feet (26 metres)Open location code
9F43M86M+PCGeoNames ID
7295644
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