Brockford Street
Brockford Street is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford, in the Mid Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, sited upon the A140 road between Ipswich and Norwich.
Brockford Street is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford, in the Mid Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, sited upon the A140 road between Ipswich and Norwich. Nearby is Brockford Station, part of The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway which closed under B.R. in 1952. The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum is located at the site of the old cattle dock. Brockford was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Brocfort.
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Worth seeing in and around Brockford Street
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.
- 01Church of St Mary
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Mendlesham, Suffolk. The church is a grade I listed building.
1.7 km · church in Mendlesham, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Mid-Suffolk Light Railway
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway was a standard gauge railway intended to open up an agricultural area of central Suffolk; it took advantage of the reduced construction cost enabled by the Light Railways Act 1896. It was launched with considerable enthusiasm by local interests, and was to build a 50-mile network, but actual share subscription was weak, and the company over-reached its available financial resources.
1.5 km · heritage railway in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brockford Street
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 72 km · London Luton (LTN), 109 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 139 km
- Stations
- Mendlesham railway station, 2.1 km
- London, Essex → Brockford Street119 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £13–17
- London → Brockford Street119 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £13–17
- Luton, Luton → Brockford Street112 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Brockford Street
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 Brockford Street. 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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