Spooner Row is a small village, and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

, in the

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county of

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. It is situated some south-west of the town of

Wymondham Wymondham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the South Norfolk district of Norfolk, England, south-west of Norwich off the A11 road to London. The River Tiffey runs through. The parish, one of Norfolk's largest, includes rural areas to t ...

and south-west of the city of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...

. The village was within the civil parish of Wymondham before separating on 1 April 2019.Ordnance Survey (1999). ''OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich''. .

Spooner Row railway station Spooner Row railway station is on the Breckland line in the East of England, serving the village of Spooner Row, Norfolk. The line runs between in the west and in the east. Spooner Row is situated between and , from London Liverpool Street ...

, in the village, is served by local services operated by

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on the

Breckland Line The Breckland line is a secondary railway line in the east of England that links in the west to in the east. The line runs through three counties: Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk. It takes its name from the Breckland region of Norfolk, an ...

from

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge beca ...

. However, weekday services are limited to two morning trains to Norwich and one early evening train to Cambridge. On Saturdays, there is only one train to Norwich and the westbound service is extended to

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. There is no service on Sundays. The station is a

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* Villages in Norfolk South Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk {{Norfolk-geo-stub