Fakenham
Fakenham is a Town in the county of Norfolk.
There are great places to visit near Fakenham including some great historic buildings, towns, beaches, ancient sites, old mines, woodlands, country parks, airports and ruins.
Don't miss Blickling Estate, Duke's Head Hotel, and Warehouse and Training Ship Vancouver in St Margaret's Lane's historic buildings if visiting the area around Fakenham.
The area around Fakenham boasts some of the best towns including King's Lynn, Thetford, Great Yarmouth, Hunstanton, and Wells-next-the-Sea.
Fakenham is near some unmissable beaches like Heacham South Beach,
Ancient Sites to visit near Fakenham include Grimes Graves.
Don't miss Grimes Graves's old mines if visiting the area around Fakenham.
Thetford Forest Park is a great place to visit close to Fakenham if you like woodlands.
The area around Fakenham's best country parks can be found at Thetford Forest Park.
The area around Fakenham's best airports can be found at Norwich Airport.
Don't miss St Benet's Abbey's ruins if visiting the area around Fakenham.
Fakenham History
There are some historic monuments around Fakenham:
Places to see near Fakenham
History of Fakenham
In the late 1990s the town was listed by contributor Robert Woods to The Knowhere Guide as “the most boring place on Earth”. The contribution was specifically referring to Wednesday afternoon which is ‘early closing’ day in Fakenham. This comment, made by Woods, was taken and quoted out of context as ‘voted’ the most boring place on Earth” and very rapidly the story was running in national newspapers with the town council defending the town and spending considerable time, money and effort trying to prove that this was not the case. Fakenham was recently voted the seventh best place to live in Britain in Country Life’s quality of life survey.
