Swaffham Branch in Stow Bedon

Swaffham Branch in Stow Bedon in Breckland is a razed railway. Swaffham Branch is also known as Roudham Junction to Swaffham Line. Swaffham Branch also exists in Griston, Roudham and Larling, Watton and Wretham.

Alternative Name
Roudham Junction to Swaffham Line

Tourist information offices

  • Pingo Trail – approx. 50 m.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 50 m.
  • NWT Thompson Common. Thompson Common is famous for its pingos - a series of 400 shallow pools thought to be have been formed at the end of the last Ice Age. – approx. 50 m.
  • Stow Bedon & Breckles Parish Council – approx. 50 m.
  • The Pingo Trail. Pingos are shallow basins formed by glacial processes at the end of the last Ice Age… The word “pingo” is Inuit in origin and means ‘small hill’. – approx. 50 m.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 50 m.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 500 m.
  • Wayland Walks in Norfolk’s Breckland Countryside – approx. 550 m.
  • Stow Bedon Common. Stow Bedon Fuel Allotment, part of Stow Bedon Common, is home to over 30 natural ponds known as pingos, created over 12,000 years ago by ground-ice thawing during the last Ice Age, leaving behing shallow depressions which filled with water. – approx. 600 m.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 1,7 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 1,7 km.
  • Crossing Keeper's Cottage. History of crossing keeper’s cottage, built around 1870 at time of Swaffham to Thetford railway line opening, before closing 1965 and becoming derelict until dangerous and demolishing. – approx. 1,7 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 2,3 km.
  • Pingo Trail – approx. 2,4 km.

Farm shops

  • Wayside Farm Shop – approx. 250 m.
  • Lodge Farm – approx. 1,9 km.
  • Breckles Grange Farm – approx. 2,5 km.
  • The Whews – approx. 3,1 km.
  • Watering Farm – approx. 3,1 km.

Bus stops

  • Mere Road, opp – approx. 700 m.
  • Mere Road, adj – approx. 700 m.

Artwork

  • Stow Bedon Village Sign (metal) – approx. 1,6 km.

Benches

  • Crossing Keeper's Cottage – approx. 1,7 km.