Great Barton
Great Barton is a large village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about 3 miles (5 km) East of Bury St Edmunds on the A143.
Great Barton is a large village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about 3 miles (5 km) East of Bury St Edmunds on the A143. At the 2011 census the village had a population of 2,191 rising to 2,236 at the 2018 mid year estimate.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Barton
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.
- 01Moreton Hall
Moreton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Bury St Edmunds, a market town in the county of Suffolk, England. It was designed by the Scottish architect Robert Adam and built in 1773 as a country house for John Symonds, a clergyman and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.
3 km · country house in Suffolk, UK in use as a school · Wikipedia - 02Nether Hall
Nether Hall is a country house situated in the village of Pakenham, Suffolk. It was one of the ancient manors of the village and seat of the Greene baronets.
3.8 km · building in Pakenham, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Moreton Hall Community Woods
Moreton Hall Community Woods is an 18.5 hectare local nature reserve in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. it is owned by West Suffolk Council and managed by Woodland Ways.
3.1 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04The Glen Chalk Caves, Bury St Edmunds
The Glen Chalk Caves, Bury St Edmunds is a 1.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Tunnels totalling 200 metres in length radiate from a chalk pit which also contains a disused lime kiln, and the tunnels and kiln are used by five species of bat for hibernation between September and April, and the surrounding vegetation helps to maintain a suitable micro-climate in the caves.
3.3 km · Suffolk Biological Site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Barton
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 56 km · London Luton (LTN), 89 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 122 km
- Stations
- Thurston railway station, 3.4 km · Bury St Edmunds railway station, 4 km
- London, Essex → Great Barton105 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £12–16
- Luton, Luton → Great Barton92 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
- London → Great Barton105 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £12–16
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great Barton
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 Barton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSee Ferry routes to Great Britain Bury St Edmunds is about 50 miles (80 km) inland of the easternmost coast of England.
- Get inFor more conventional ship travel, the nearest passenger ferry port is at Harwich (48 miles) for the Netherlands, Denmark and cruises to Germany and Scandinavia.
- Get inGreater Anglia train services from Harwich International port (ferry connections to Scandinavia and the Netherlands) direct to Bury St Edmunds (1 hr 6 min).
- Get inSouth Eastern train services to Stratford International (London) station from Dover (1 hr 4 min - for ferry connections to France) and Ramsgate (1 hr 11 min - for ferry connections to Belgium).
From Wikivoyage: Bury St Edmunds, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Great Barton
- Fornham St Martinvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.6 km
- Pakenhamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3.5 km
- Timworthvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Conyer's Greenvillage in Suffolk, England, UK1 km