Hessett
Hessett is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.
Hessett is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Hessett is located around four miles south-east of Bury St Edmunds. It is a rural village with a single north-south road off which most other roads flow. In 2011 its population was 464 which is towards the highest recorded population since its peak in 1850. Hessett is south of Beyton and west of Drinkstone.
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Worth seeing in and around Hessett
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.
- 01Church of St Mary, Woolpit
Saint Mary's Church is the parish church of Woolpit, Suffolk, England. Much of the church was built in the fifteenth century but its most salient feature, the spire, was rebuilt in 1870, thanks to the architect Richard Phipson.
3.9 km · church in Woolpit, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hessett
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 55 km · London Luton (LTN), 91 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 122 km
- London, Essex → Hessett103 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £12–16
- London → Hessett103 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £12–16
- Luton, Luton → Hessett93 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hessett
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 Hessett. 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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