Flowton
Flowton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, with a population of 117 people.
Flowton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, with a population of 117 people. The name 'Flowton' originally derives from the word 'Flocctun', meaning a flock of sheep or a sheep farm.
The parish is located around six miles north west of Ipswich, which is the county town of Suffolk. Flowton contains the hamlet of Flowton Brook, and consists of rural farmland accompanied by scattered farm houses and a few newer builds situated nearby the parish church of 'St Mary's'.
In the 1870s, Flowton was described as:"Flowton, a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 3½ miles WNW of Bramford r. station, and 5½ NW by W of Ipswich. Post town, Bramford under Ipswich. Acres 495. Real property, £994. Pop., 151. Houses, 34. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £140.* Patron, Henry Thornton, Esq. The church is good."
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Worth seeing in and around Flowton
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.
- 01Middle 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.
4 km · biological site in Suffolk, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Flowton
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 59 km · London Luton (LTN), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 123 km
- London, Essex → Flowton102 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £11–15
- London → Flowton102 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £11–15
- Luton, Luton → Flowton102 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Flowton
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 Flowton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inRural bus and minibus services run to surrounding villages, although some are very infrequent.
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