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Banham

Banham is a locality in , , . Banham is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near the locality .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Banham Zoo and St Mary the Virgin, Banham.

Zoo
Banham Zoological Gardens is a 50-acre zoo in , , England. The zoo, which in 2024 was reported to be a home to more than 2,000 animals, opened to the public in 1968, became a charity in 2013, and has since been often awarded the prize of Norfolk's Top Attraction, by numerous different organisations, with an annual visitor attendance of in excess of 200,000 people.

Church
Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Banham is a Grade I listed Church of England parish church in , . The basic material of the building is the natural flint of the area, and as is usual with Norfolk churches, white freestone was sparingly used for windows and framing because it had to be brought laboriously from quarries in Northamptonshire.

Archaeological site
Photo: Andy Peacock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old and are two castles adjacent respectively to the villages of and , , England.

Banham

Latitude
52.4517° or 52° 27′ 6″ north
Longitude
1.0438° or 1° 2′ 38″ east
Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)
Open location code
9F43F22V+MG
Geo­Names ID
7296104
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