The nearest railway station is at Gunton for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich.

[3] Southrepps is built on a low-rise mix of glacial sands and gravels, with expanses of rich till formed from the so-called Cromer Forest Bed created in a warmer period when a great meandering river fringed rank forest vegetation.

These durable and abundant flint cobbles were collected from the beaches and used as decorative and structural materials in village buildings.

With a south to west wind blowing in summer the temperature easily surpasses 20 °C and exceeds 30 °C on at least a few days every year.

[citation needed] With over 1,550 hours of sunshine annually, it is behind only the south-coast counties and Suffolk, though it can be plagued by low sea cloud in spring and early summer when water vapour held in warm, moist continental air from the east condenses into fog over the comparatively cold North Sea.

[4] Climate and geology have combined to make the area highly productive in various forms of agriculture, arable and sheep farming being predominant from the Middle Ages, though the Black Death and Great Plague led to serious falls in activity.

During the Second World War agriculture rapidly intensified, and it has remained very intensive since with the establishment of large fields for cereal and root crop growing.

Many uprooted trees and hedgerows, however, have been systematically replaced, restoring the traditional appearance of the landscape, due to the efforts of a small number of local farmers and landowners.

Its current project is a detailed survey of the history of agricultural land use in the area which the local school is participating in.

The diverse habitats support an exceptional range of species and it also has "Special Area of Conservation" status.

The stream is shallow, free-flowing and supports several species of snail, caddis fly and dragonfly, with water voles living along the banks.