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Bawdsey

Bawdsey is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, eastern England.

Bawdsey
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The place

Bawdsey is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, eastern England. It is situated on the other side of the mouth of River Deben from Felixstowe. It had an estimated population of 340 in 2007, reducing to 276 at the Census 2011.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bawdsey

One place 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
    Bawdsey Manor

    Bawdsey Manor stands at a prominent position at the mouth of the River Deben close to the village of Bawdsey in Suffolk, England, about 75 miles north-east of London. Built in 1886, it was enlarged in 1895 as the principal residence of Sir William Cuthbert Quilter.

    2.8 km · country house in Bawdsey, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bawdsey

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 83 km · London Luton (LTN), 124 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 135 km
  • London, Essex → Bawdsey
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £14–18
  • London → Bawdsey
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £14–18
  • Luton, Luton → Bawdsey
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bawdsey

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPort of Felixstowe is busy with freight but has no international ferries.
  • Get inCross to Harwich Parkeston Quay for the ferry to Hoek van Holland.

From Wikivoyage: Felixstowe, 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

    240 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    278 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    585 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    619 km

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Around it

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