Great Bealings
Great Bealings is a small village in Suffolk, England.
Great Bealings is a small village in Suffolk, England. It has about 302 people living in it in around 113 households. Its nearest towns are Ipswich and Woodbridge. Nearby villages include Little Bealings, Playford, Culpho, Hasketon and Grundisburgh. The village does not have an obvious centre, and the population is split between two areas — one around Lower Street to the East of the village, and the other at Boot Street/Grundisburgh Road to the West of the village. St Mary's, the village church, is about in the middle of these two centres of population.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Bealings
3 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.
- 01Playford Hall
Playford Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Playford, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Playford Hall is set in 30 acres, the gardens were designed in 1960 by Lady Penelope Aitken.
2.3 km · country mansion in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Sinks Valley, Kesgrave
Sinks Valley is a 24.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kesgrave, on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk, United Kingdom. This site has diverse semi-natural habitats, with alder and oak woodland, a brook with fringing swamp, wet and dry grassland, spring fed fen and heath.
2.8 km · site of Specific Scientific Interest in the UK · Wikipedia - 03Kesgrave Hall
Kesgrave Hall is a country house located in woodlands north of the town of Kesgrave, which itself is on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. It was constructed in 1812 by William Cunliffe-Shawe, and has been extended since, notably by the addition of a northern extension.
2.6 km · building in Kesgrave, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Bealings
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 74 km · London Luton (LTN), 114 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 137 km
- Stations
- Bealings railway station, 1.6 km
- London, Essex → Great Bealings115 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £12–16
- London → Great Bealings115 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £12–16
- Luton, Luton → Great Bealings117 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Great Bealings
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 Bealings. 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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Next door to Great Bealings
- Kesgravetown and civil parish in East Suffolk, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Grundisburghvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK2.2 km
- Hasketonvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Martleshamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom2.9 km
- Little Bealingsvillage in Suffolk, England, UK1.1 km
- Burghvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK2.4 km