East of England
Norfolk
Breckland District

Thetford

Thetford is a town of 24,000 people in , . Thetford contains the ruins of Thetford Castle and Thetford Priory, which was closed during the Reformation.
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  • Type: Town with 24,800 residents
  • Description: town in Norfolk, England
  • Also known as: “Thetford, Norfolk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thetford railway station and Charles Burrell Museum.

Railway station
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is on the Breckland line in the east of England, serving the market town of Thetford, . The line runs between in the west and in the east.

Museum
Photo: Jack1956, CC0.
The is a museum in Thetford in , England, dedicated to steam power and steam transport. The museum opened in 1991 in the former Paint Shop of Charles Burrell & Sons, which is grade II listed, on Minstergate in Thetford.

Museum
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barnham.

Village
Photo: Keith Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of the English county of about 3 miles south of Thetford and 9 miles north of on the A134. is situated 2½ miles south of Thetford.

Thetford

Latitude
52.4156° or 52° 24′ 56″ north
Longitude
0.7487° or 0° 44′ 55″ east
Population
24,800
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB TFD
Open location code
9F42CP8X+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21387458
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636032
Wiki­data ID
Q237250
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Thetford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Thetford”
  • Amharic: “ጤትፎርድ”
  • Arabic: “ثيتفورد”
  • Armenian: “Թեթֆորդ”
  • Armenian: “Թետֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Thetford”
  • Basque: “Thetford”
  • Belarusian: “Тэтфард”
  • Bengali: “থেটফোর্ড”
  • Catalan: “Thetford”
  • Cebuano: “Thetford”
  • Chinese: “塞特福德”
  • Chinese: “特福特”
  • Dutch: “Thetford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ثيتفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Thetford”
  • French: “Thetford”
  • Georgian: “თეტფორდი”
  • German: “Thetford”
  • Gujarati: “થેટફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “ת’טפורד”
  • Irish: “Thetford”
  • Italian: “Thetford”
  • Japanese: “セットフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಥೆಟ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “테트포드”
  • Ladin: “Thetford”
  • Latvian: “Tetforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Tetfordas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Thetford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thetford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thetford i Norfolk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thetford”
  • Norwegian: “Thetford”
  • Persian: “تتفورد”
  • Persian: “ثتفورد”
  • Polish: “Thetford”
  • Portuguese: “Thetford”
  • Romanian: “Thetford”
  • Russian: “Тетфорд”
  • Slovenian: “Thetford, Anglija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تتفورد”
  • Spanish: “Thetford”
  • Swedish: “Thetford”
  • Tamil: “தேட்போர்ட”
  • Telugu: “తెట్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Thetford”
  • Ukrainian: “Тетфорд”
  • Urdu: “تھیتفورڈ”
  • Volapük: “Thetford”
  • Welsh: “Thetford”
  • Yiddish: “טעטפארד”

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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 “Thetford”. Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.