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Babergh District

Babergh District is a local government district in Suffolk, England.

Babergh District
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The place

Babergh District is a local government district in Suffolk, England. In 2021 it had a population of 92,300. The district is primarily a rural area, containing just two towns, Sudbury and Hadleigh. The council was based in Hadleigh until 2017, when it moved to shared offices with neighbouring Mid Suffolk District Council in Ipswich, outside either district. The district is named after the medieval Babergh Hundred, which covered part of the area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Babergh District

7 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
    St Mary, Hadleigh

    St Mary's is an Anglican church in Hadleigh, Suffolk. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and the archdeaconry of Ipswich.

    600 m · Grade I listed church in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Kersey

    St Mary's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Kersey, Suffolk.

    2.3 km · church in Kersey, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Benton End House

    Benton End is a Grade II* listed sixteenth-century house located on the outskirts of the market town of Hadleigh in Suffolk, England. From 1939 to 1982 it was home to the artist Cedric Morris, who ran the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the house, and in the garden grew a significant botanical collection.

    1.9 km · house in Hadleigh, Babergh, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    124 and 126, High Street

    The Shoulder of Mutton was a public house in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. It originally occupied 124 and 126 Hadleigh High Street.

    300 m · building in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Town Hall

    Hadleigh Town Hall, also referred to as the New Town Hall, is a municipal building in the Market Place in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Hadleigh Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    700 m · town hall in Hadleigh, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Railway Walk, Hadleigh

    Railway Walk, Hadleigh is an 11.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve which runs for 2 miles along the route of the former Hadleigh railway south-east from Hadleigh in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Babergh District Council.

    3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Riverside Walk, Hadleigh

    Riverside Walk is a 4.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Hadleigh in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Babergh District Council.

    600 m · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Babergh District

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 52 km · London Luton (LTN), 92 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
  • London, Essex → Babergh District
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–14
  • London → Babergh District
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Babergh District
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Babergh District

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 Babergh District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMotorists, cyclists and pedestrians can use Stena Line ferries from Rotterdam () to Harwich.
  • Get inThe Harwich Harbour Ferry operates from Harwich Ha'penny Pier in Essex to and .

From Wikivoyage: Suffolk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-01.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    217 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    400 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    560 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    594 km

If you know how people move in Babergh District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Babergh District

  • Hadleightown in Babergh, Suffolk, England1 km
  • Kerseyvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK2.1 km
  • Aldhamvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, UK2 km
  • Whatfieldvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.5 km
  • Layhamvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.5 km
  • Kersey Tyehamlet3.7 km