Thetford Forest
Thetford Forest is the largest lowland pine forest in Great Britain and is located in a region straddling the north of Suffolk and the south of Norfolk in England. It covers over 19,000 ha in the form of a Site of Special Scientific Interest.Photo: DemonTraitor, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Norfolk, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Thetford Forest Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grime’s Graves and All Saints.
Grime’s Graves
Heath
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England. It lies 8 km north east from Brandon, Suffolk in the East of England. It was worked between c.
Santon
Dwelling
Photo: Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santon is a depopulated village near Santon Downham, in the civil parish of Lynford, in the Breckland district, in Norfolk, England. Moated earthworks and other remains of the medieval village are a scheduled monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brandon and Santon Downham.
Brandon
Brandon is a town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. Brandon is located in the Breckland area of Suffolk in the extreme north-west of the county, close to the adjoining county of Norfolk.
Santon Downham
Hamlet
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santon Downham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 it had a population of 240. The village is located within Thetford Forest on a meander of the River Little Ouse on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. Thetford is 4 miles southeast and the nearest railway station is in Brandon 2 miles west.
Mundford
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mundford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated at the intersection of two major routes, the A134 Colchester to King's Lynn road and the A1065 Mildenhall to Fakenham road, about 8 miles north west of Thetford.
Thetford Forest
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Thetford Forest” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thetford Forest Park”
- Chinese: “塞特福德森林”
- Indonesian: “Hutan thetford”
- Indonesian: “Hutan Thetford”
- Japanese: “セットフォード森林公園”
- Malay: “Hutan Thetford”
- Swedish: “Thetford Forest Park”
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