Living in Spixworth

Spixworth is in Broadland, north of Old Catton, and the B1150 North Walsham Road takes you into the city. The Broadland Northway, the A1270, passes to the south of the village; the section from the A140 Cromer Road to the A1151 Wroxham Road opened in December 2017. Norwich city centre is typically 10 to 15 minutes by car.

Beyond the Co-op there is little shopping. For a supermarket or a high street you go to Sprowston or into the city. If you want to live inside the city’s suburbs instead, Hellesdon and Sprowston are the obvious places to compare.

St Peter’s church dates from 1160. Spixworth Hall, bought by the Longe family in 1693, was sold in 1950 and pulled down in 1952; the village pub is the Longe Arms.

HM Land Registry recorded 56 standard sales in Spixworth in the 12 months to June 2026. The median was £300,000 and the mean £306,000. There were no new-build sales in that year.

Most of what sells is detached. For the district, the UK House Price Index put the Broadland average at £313,407 in July 2026, up 2.9% on a year earlier; that index adjusts for the mix of homes sold, so it will not match the village figures. For what similar money buys in the city itself, see our Norwich city centre property guide.

Spixworth’s Band D council tax for 2026-27 is £2,412.46, of which £89.38 is the parish council’s share. Sprowston’s Band D is £2,466.51. Band A in Spixworth is £1,608.30 and Band H £4,824.91.

Spixworth has two primary-phase schools side by side on Ivy Road. Spixworth Infant School was rated Good at its inspection on 13 June 2023. Woodland View Junior School was inspected on 15 October 2024, after Ofsted stopped giving an overall grade, and was judged Good in all four areas: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. Children move from one to the other without leaving the village.

Both schools feed Sprowston Community Academy on Cannerby Lane, which takes ages 11 to 18 and has 1,702 pupils. Ofsted inspected it on 6 May 2026 under the new report-card system and graded all seven areas, including the sixth form, at “expected standard”. It is in Sprowston, so secondary pupils travel out of the village every day.

The shops are on Crostwick Lane. The East of England Co-op is at number 115 and the post office at 106. Spixworth Dental Practice is at 86 Crostwick Lane and the Longe Arms at number 1.

Spixworth Surgery, at 20 St Peter’s Way, is a branch of Coltishall Medical Practice and is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.

The Broads start to the north-east, around Coltishall and Wroxham.

First’s Orange Line 20 runs every half hour on weekdays from Spixworth through Old Catton and Sprowston to Castle Meadow in the city centre, about 30 minutes, and on across the city to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. The first bus leaves Beeston Lane at 05:41. The last back from Castle Meadow leaves at 23:08. The hospital is at the far end of the route, so a bus there takes about an hour and a half.

Sanders runs two more routes through the village: the 54 between North Walsham and Norwich bus station, about 23 minutes from Spixworth, and the 55 in the evenings.

There is no station. The nearest are Norwich and Salhouse, on the Bittern Line.