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Chelsworth

Chelsworth is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

Chelsworth
Chelsworth · Tilman2007
The place

Chelsworth is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It lies on the B1115 road, 10 miles in either direction from Sudbury and Stowmarket. The parish also contains the hamlet of Chelsworth Common. In 2011 the parish had a population of 206.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chelsworth

4 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
    Milden Castle

    Milden Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle on Foxburrow hill in Milden, a village in Suffolk, England. It had been built by the twelfth century, and seems to have been involved in hostilities during the Anarchy.

    3.6 km · castle in Milden, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James' Chapel, Lindsey

    St James' Chapel is a 13th-century chapel located near the village of Lindsey, Suffolk, which served as a chantry chapel for nearby Lindsey castle. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building and scheduled monument.

    3.6 km · church in Lindsey, Suffolk in Lindsey, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Clock Tower

    The Clock Tower is a clock tower in the market place, in the centre of Bildeston, Suffolk, England. It was erected in 1864.

    1.9 km · clock tower in Bildeston, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Brent Eleigh

    The church of St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    3.8 km · church in Brent Eleigh, 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.

Go there

Getting to Chelsworth

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 51 km · London Luton (LTN), 90 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
  • London, Essex → Chelsworth
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £11–14
  • London → Chelsworth
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Chelsworth
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £11–14
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chelsworth

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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 .

From Wikivoyage: Suffolk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-01.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    218 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    305 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    397 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    553 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    587 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chelsworth

  • Bildestonvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England1.9 km
  • Hitchamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England in the United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Lindseyvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England3.1 km
  • Mildenvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.8 km
  • Kettlebastonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.7 km
  • Brent Eleighvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.9 km