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 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'.
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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 → Helmingham118 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £12–16
- London → Helmingham118 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £12–16
- Luton, Luton → Helmingham116 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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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