Bungay

Worth seeing in and around Bungay

10 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
   Bungay Castle

   Bungay Castle is a Grade I listed building in the town of Bungay, Suffolk.

   100 m · castle in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Mettingham Castle

   Mettingham Castle was a fortified manor house in the parish of Mettingham in the north of the English county of Suffolk.

   2.6 km · castle in Mettingham, Waveney, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Ditchingham Hall

   Ditchingham Hall is an English country house, near the village of Ditchingham in south Norfolk, England, which is set in about 2,000 acres of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown. The Hall is about 2 miles northwest of Ditchingham off the B1332 road between Bungay, Suffolk and Norwich.

   3.3 km · country house in Norfolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Mary's Church

   St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the town of Bungay, Suffolk, England. The church and the ruins of the adjacent priory are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and are under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   100 m · church in Bungay, East Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Hedenham Wood

   Hedenham Wood is a 23.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Hedenham in Norfolk, England. Most of the ancient wood on boulder clay is hornbeam coppice with oak standards, but the wet valley bottom has ash, maple and elm.

   5.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Leet Hill, Kirby Cane

   Leet Hill, Kirby Cane is a 6.5-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kirby Cane in Norfolk, England. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.

   5.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Tindall Wood, Ditchingham

   Tindall Wood, Ditchingham is a 42.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Ditchingham in Norfolk, England. It is one of the largest hornbeam woods in Norfolk.

   3.7 km · biological site in Norfolk, England · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Earsham Hall

   Earsham House is a Georgian country house near the village of Earsham, Norfolk. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   2.8 km · country house in Earsham, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Flixton Priory

   Flixton Priory was a nunnery under a prioress following the Augustinian rule, which formerly stood in the parish of Flixton in the north of the English county of Suffolk, about 3 miles south-west of Bungay. It was founded by Margery de Creke in 1258, and was dissolved in 1536–37.

   4 km · monastery in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Sexton Wood

    Sexton Wood is a 40-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Ditchingham in Norfolk, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2.

    4.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   St Michaels Church

   It was at this church in 1749 that the mother of Horatio Nelson, Catherine Suckling, married the Reverend Edmund Nelson (a former curate of Beccles).

2. 02
   Beccles and District Museum

   Leman House, Ballygate, Beccles NR34 9ND, museummanager@btconnect.com.

3. 03
   Beccles Bell Tower

   The townscape is dominated by the detached 16th century bell tower (known as the Beccles bell tower) of St Michael's Church.

4. 04
   Bungay Castle

   Bungay Castle was built by the Normans but was later rebuilt by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk and his family, who also owned Framlingham Castle.

From Wikivoyage: Bungay, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Beccles Carnival, becclescarnival@outlook.com. Annual late Aug.

From Wikivoyage: Bungay, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

1. 01
   India Gate
2. 02
   Graze
3. 03
   Suffolk Stonehouse

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Getting to Bungay

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 104 km · London Luton (LTN), 139 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 170 km

Stations

Bungay railway station, 600 m · Earsham railway station, 1.6 km · Ellingham railway station, 3.5 km · Geldeston railway station, 5.4 km · Ditchingham railway station, 1.2 km

• London, Essex → Bungay

  150 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–22
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  150 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £17–22
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• Luton, Luton → Bungay

  142 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £15–20
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