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

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.
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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.
- 01St 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 - 02St 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 - 03Benton 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 - 04124 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 - 05Town 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 - 06Railway 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 - 07Riverside 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 District94 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–14
- London → Babergh District94 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Babergh District93 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £11–15
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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.
- 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 .
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