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Beyton

Beyton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk.

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The place

Beyton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. The village is around 8 miles (13 km) east of Bury St Edmunds, 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east of Thurston and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Stowmarket. The main Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds road used to pass through the village – the modern A14 dual carriageway bypasses the village to the north.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Beyton

2 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
    Church of St Mary, Woolpit

    Saint Mary's Church is the parish church of Woolpit, Suffolk, England. Much of the church was built in the fifteenth century but its most salient feature, the spire, was rebuilt in 1870, thanks to the architect Richard Phipson.

    3.9 km · church in Woolpit, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nether Hall

    Nether Hall is a country house situated in the village of Pakenham, Suffolk. It was one of the ancient manors of the village and seat of the Greene baronets.

    3.8 km · building in Pakenham, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Beyton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 123 km
Stations
Thurston railway station, 2.5 km
  • London, Essex → Beyton
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £12–16
  • London → Beyton
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Beyton
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Beyton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSee Ferry routes to Great Britain Bury St Edmunds is about 50 miles (80 km) inland of the easternmost coast of England.
  • Get inFor more conventional ship travel, the nearest passenger ferry port is at Harwich (48 miles) for the Netherlands, Denmark and cruises to Germany and Scandinavia.
  • Get inGreater Anglia train services from Harwich International port (ferry connections to Scandinavia and the Netherlands) direct to Bury St Edmunds (1 hr 6 min).
  • Get inSouth Eastern train services to Stratford International (London) station from Dover (1 hr 4 min - for ferry connections to France) and Ramsgate (1 hr 11 min - for ferry connections to Belgium).

From Wikivoyage: Bury St Edmunds, 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

    227 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    302 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    397 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    539 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    573 km

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

Around it

Next door to Beyton

  • Woolpitvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.8 km
  • Tostockvillage in Suffolk, United Kingdom2 km
  • Thurstonvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Hessettvillage in Suffolk, England, UK1.7 km
  • Drinkstonevillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.8 km
  • Bradfield St Georgevillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England3.8 km