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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] In 1931 the parish had a population of 185. [2]
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.
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 ...
The town name is an Old English language word, and means 'Wulfhere's settlement'. [2] It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wluerintone. The original Wolverton was a medieval settlement just north and west of today's town. This site is now known as Old Wolverton, although the medieval village is all but gone.
Dersingham Bog is a 159.1-hectare (393-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Norfolk, England. [1] [3] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2, [4] a National Nature Reserve [5] and a Ramsar site [2] It is part of the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, [6] and the Roydon Common & Dersingham Bog Special Area of Conservation [7] Part of it ...
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.
Wolverton railway station serves Wolverton, a constituent town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.The station is on the West Coast Main Line, about 52 miles (84 km) from Euston, between Milton Keynes Central and Northampton.
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