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.
Historic Buildings to visit near Fakenham include Blickling Estate, Duke's Head Hotel, and Warehouse and Training Ship Vancouver in St Margaret's Lane.
Don't miss King's Lynn, Thetford, Great Yarmouth, Hunstanton, and Wells-next-the-Sea's towns if visiting the area around Fakenham.
Heacham South Beach is a great place to visit close to Fakenham if you like beaches.
Don't miss Grimes Graves's ancient sites if visiting the area around Fakenham.
There are a number of old mines near to Fakenham including Grimes Graves.
There are a several good woodlands in the area around Fakenham like Thetford Forest Park.
Places near Fakenham feature a number of interesting country parks including Thetford Forest Park.
The area around Fakenham's best airports can be found at Norwich Airport.
Fakenham is near some unmissable ruins like St Benet's Abbey,
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.
