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Herringswell

Herringswell is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.

Herringswell
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The place

Herringswell is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. In 2005, it had a population of 190. In 2007, there were 128 voters there.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Herringswell

One place 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
    Parish Church of St Nicholas

    St Nicholas Church is the parish church of the village of Kennett in east Cambridgeshire. It has been dedicated to St Nicholas since the 13th century.

    2.3 km · church in Kennett, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · 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 Herringswell

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 50 km · London Luton (LTN), 77 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 114 km
Stations
Kennett railway station, 3.2 km
  • London, Essex → Herringswell
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Herringswell
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
  • London → Herringswell
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £10–14
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Herringswell

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe A1089 and A13 roads link the ferry terminal with destinations throughout the region.
  • Get aroundSince 1912, the Harwich Harbour Ferry has carried passengers across the water between Suffolk and Essex, and operates during the late-spring, summer and early-autumn months.
  • Get aroundSpot wherry cargo boats on the rivers - old sail and oar cargo boats now popular with tourists - on the windy waterways, or pleasurecraft which moor in riparian destinations like Wroxham and Horning.

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    219 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    378 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    519 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    553 km

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Around it

Next door to Herringswell

  • Kennettvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Barton Millsvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Kentfordvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Tuddenhamvillage in West Suffolk, Suffolk, England2.5 km
  • Red Lodgevillage and civil parish in West Suffolk, England, UK1.6 km