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Elmsett

Elmsett is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England.

Elmsett
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The place

Elmsett is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located around three miles north-east of Hadleigh, it is in Babergh district. In 2005, it had a population of 826, reducing to 788 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elmsett

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
    Middle Wood, Offton

    Middle Wood, Offton is a 23.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Offton in Suffolk. This is a medieval coppice with standards wood on wet boulder clay, and it has very diverse ground flora, including species typical of ancient woodland.

    3.3 km · biological site in Suffolk, England · 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 Elmsett

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 57 km · London Luton (LTN), 96 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 121 km
  • London, Essex → Elmsett
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £11–15
  • London → Elmsett
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Elmsett
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elmsett

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 Elmsett. 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

    222 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    560 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

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

Around it

Next door to Elmsett

  • Aldhamvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, UK3 km
  • Whatfieldvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.2 km
  • Flowtonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.7 km
  • Somershamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England3.5 km
  • Offtonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.2 km