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Alpheton

Alpheton is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England.

The place

Alpheton is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located on the A134 road about six miles north of Sudbury, in 2005 it had a population of 260, reducing to 256 at the 2011 Census. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is the homestead of Aelfled.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alpheton

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Kentwell Hall

    Kentwell Hall is a stately home in Long Melford, Suffolk, England. It includes the hall, outbuildings, a rare-breeds farm and gardens.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed manor house in Long Melford, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lavenham Wool Hall

    Lavenham Wool Hall, also known as the Swan Hotel, is a timber framed building on Lady Street in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Dating from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries, it has been protected since 1958 as a listed building.

    3.7 km · building in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham

    St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Lavenham, Suffolk. It is a notable wool church and regarded as one of the finest examples of Late Perpendicular Gothic architecture in England.

    3.5 km · church in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, Lawshall

    The Parish Church of All Saints' Lawshall, is an Anglican church in the village of Lawshall, Suffolk, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

    3.9 km · church in Lawshall, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lavenham Guildhall

    Lavenham Guildhall is a timber-framed municipal building in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. It is Grade I listed.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed local museum in Babergh, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Peter and St Paul Church Alpheton

    The St Peter and St Paul Church, Alpheton is the parish church of Alpheton, Suffolk, England. Built in the 14th century it is a Grade I listed building.

    1 km · church in Alpheton, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kentwell Woods

    Kentwell Woods is a 77.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in fifteen woods in fourteen separate blocks east and north-east of Glemsford in Suffolk. There is a variety of different woodland types in this site, and the most common is the wet ash and maple, with hazel also common.

    2.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Lawshall Hall

    Lawshall Hall is a Grade II* listed building, re-built in 1557, that is located in the parish of Lawshall in Suffolk. The Hall is adjacent to All Saints Church and is very close to the centre of the village.

    4 km · historic site in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Alpheton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 110 km
Stations
Lavenham railway station, 3.5 km
  • London, Essex → Alpheton
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Alpheton
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £10–13
  • London → Alpheton
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alpheton

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alpheton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe complete route requires ferry crossings, and follows a mix of on- and off-road paths and terrains.

From Wikivoyage: Long Melford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    214 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    312 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    544 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    578 km

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