Acle
Acle is a market town in Norfolk. With a population of nearly 3,000 the town lies midway between Norwich and Great Yarmouth. It lies on an important road route having the only bridge across the River Bure between Great Yarmouth and Wroxham and Hoveton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,320 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Broadland, Norfolk, UK
- Also known as: “Acle, Norfolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Acle railway station and Acle Academy.
Acle railway station
Railway station
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Acle railway station is a stop on the Wherry Lines in the east of England, serving the town of Acle, Norfolk. It is 10 miles 34 chains down the line from Norwich on the route to Great Yarmouth. Its three-letter station code is ACL.
Acle Academy
School
The Acle Academy, formerly known as Acle High School, is a secondary school which is located in Acle, Norfolk, England. This is in the centre of the Norfolk Broads. The academy status school has 700 pupils, ranging in age from 11 to 16 years old.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upton and Stokesby with Herringby.
Upton
Village
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Upton is a village on the River Bure in Norfolk, England within the Broads national park. The villages name means 'higher farm/settlement'. Administratively it comes under the civil parish of Upton with Fishley which in turn comes under the district of Broadland.
Stokesby with Herringby
Village
Stokesby with Herringby is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It comprises the village of Stokesby and the surrounding rural area. It is situated on the banks of the River Bure, some 10 km west of the town of Great Yarmouth and 25 km east of the city of Norwich.
Moulton St Mary
Village
Photo: Pommes104, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moulton St Mary is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Beighton, in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England. It is about 2 miles south of Acle.
Acle
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Broadland, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.6372° or 52° 38′ 14″ northLongitude
1.5506° or 1° 33′ 2″ eastPopulation
2,320Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ACLOpen location code
9F43JHP2+V6OpenStreetMap ID
way 26535248OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Acle” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Acle”
- Basque: “Acle”
- Bengali: “এক্ল”
- Cebuano: “Acle”
- Chinese: “阿克勒”
- Chinese: “阿克尔”
- Dutch: “Acle”
- French: “Acle”
- German: “Acle”
- Gujarati: “એકલ”
- Irish: “Acle”
- Italian: “Acle”
- Japanese: “エイクル”
- Kannada: “ಆಕ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “아클”
- Lithuanian: “Aklė”
- Persian: “ایکل”
- Polish: “Acle”
- Portuguese: “Acle”
- Russian: “Экл”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایکل”
- Spanish: “Acle”
- Swedish: “Acle”
- Tamil: “அகில்”
- Telugu: “అక్లే”
- Turkish: “Acle”
- Urdu: “اکل”
- Volapük: “Acle”
- Welsh: “Acle”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Acle”. Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.