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Wolferton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandringham, in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk district of Norfolk, England. It is 2 miles west of Sandringham , 7½ miles north of King's Lynn and 37¼ miles northwest of Norwich . [ 1 ]
Wolferton was a railway station on the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway line which opened in 1862 to serve the village of Wolferton in Norfolk, England. The station was also well known as the nearest station to Sandringham House , and royal trains brought the royal family to and from their estate until the station's closure in 1969.
Wolverton (/ ˈ w ʊ l v ər t ən / WUUL-vər-tən) is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England.It is located in the north-west of the city, beside the West Coast Main Line, the Grand Union Canal and the river Great Ouse.
The Wolferton Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses of four-year-old and up. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile 1 furlong and 212 yards (2,004 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June on the first day of the Royal Ascot meeting.
Wolferton: Wolferton: 3 October 1862 [94] 5 May 1969 [94] Great Eastern: Wortwell: Wortwell: 1 December 1855 [61] 1 January 1878 [61] Great Eastern: Wretham & Hockham: Wretham: 18 October 1869 [95] 15 June 1964 [95] Great Eastern: Yarmouth Beach: Great Yarmouth: 7 August 1877 [95] 2 March 1959 [95] Midland & Great Northern: Yarmouth South Town ...
Wood Farm is a five-bedroom cottage located in a secluded part of the Sandringham Estate, overlooking the sea. [1] It has been described as a “comfortable open beamed cottage two miles from the ‘big house’”. [2]
The Wolverton [Wolferton] station is on the estate of the Prince of Wales (through which the line runs for nearly three miles), and is to be enlarged at the expense and for the accommodation of his Royal Highness. The Hunstanton terminus is near the verge of the cliffs. The line is worked by the Great Eastern Railway Company. [6] Wolferton ...
Named in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ulvretune, [2] Wolverton has a royal history. Circa 885, King Alfred gave the area – along with neighbouring Baughurst – to the Diocese of Winchester.