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Helmingham

Helmingham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 12 miles (20 km) east of Stowmarket, and 12 miles north (20 km) of Ipswich.

Helmingham
Helmingham · David Lucas / John Constable
The place

Helmingham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 12 miles (20 km) east of Stowmarket, and 12 miles north (20 km) of Ipswich. It has a population of 170, increasing to 186 at the 2011 Census. It retains the same name by which it was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, namely Helmingheham, meaning 'the village of Helm's people'.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Helmingham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 74 km · London Luton (LTN), 113 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 138 km
  • London, Essex → Helmingham
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £12–16
  • London → Helmingham
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Helmingham
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Helmingham

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 Helmingham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRural bus and minibus services run to surrounding villages, although some are very infrequent.

From Wikivoyage: Ipswich (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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