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Great Ashfield

Great Ashfield is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Bury St Edmunds.

Great Ashfield
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The place

Great Ashfield is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, about 9 miles (14 km) east of Bury St Edmunds.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Ashfield

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.

  1. 01
    Great Ashfield Castle

    Great Ashfield Castle, also known locally as Castle Hill, is a medieval motte and bailey castle near the village of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England.

    1.1 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Gardens, Great Ashfield

    The Gardens, Great Ashfield is a 3.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Great Ashfield in Suffolk. These ancient meadows are traditionally managed by grazing and cutting for hay.

    900 m · Site of Special Scientific Interest 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 Great Ashfield

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 64 km · London Luton (LTN), 99 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 130 km
Stations
Elmswell railway station, 3.5 km
  • London, Essex → Great Ashfield
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–17
  • London → Great Ashfield
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–17
  • Luton, Luton → Great Ashfield
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £11–15
  • 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 Great Ashfield

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 Great Ashfield. 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

    234 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    404 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    541 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    575 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Ashfield

  • Langhamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK3.6 km
  • Badwell Ashvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.1 km
  • Elmswellvillage in Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, England3.6 km
  • Hunstonvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Bacton Greenvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.9 km
  • Badwell Greenvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.1 km