Wighton

Wighton is a village and civil parish in the county of . The village is situated some 3.7 mi south of the town of , 7.5 mi north of the town of , and 28 mi north-west of the city of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Wighton Halt railway station and Warham railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Svitapeneela, Public domain.
Wighton Halt is a railway station serving the small village of , . It is a public railway station, originally part of the standard gauge network, and now part of the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway.

Railway station
Photo: Svitapeneela, Public domain.
is a request stop on the narrow gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway, and serves the small village of . It opened in 1982.

Archaeological site
Photo: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an Iron Age circular hillfort with a total diameter of 212 metres near , south of in . It is a scheduled monument dated to between 800BC and 43AD, and a 5.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, located within the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wells-next-the-Sea and Walsingham.

Photo: Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town on the North Norfolk coast, set about 1 mi in land. Wells' quay, often busy with fishing boats, is separated from the North Sea by a series of tidal channels and flat salt marshes.

Village
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is a civil parish in the district, in , England, notable for its religious shrines in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. The parish also contains the ruins of two medieval monastic houses.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of , in the district, in the English county of . The village has also been referred to as Houghton-le-Dale or Houghton-in-the-Hole. is situated 2½ miles south of Wighton.

Wighton

Latitude
52.9208° or 52° 55′ 15″ north
Longitude
0.8611° or 0° 51′ 40″ east
Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)
Open location code
9F42WVC6+8C
Geo­Names ID
7296099
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