Icklingham
Icklingham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.
Icklingham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located about 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Bury St Edmunds, 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Mildenhall and 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Thetford in Norfolk. The village is on the A1101 road between Bury St Edmunds and Mildenhall in the north-west of the county. The area around the village, characterised by a sandy gravel-laden soil, is known as Breckland, though an arm of the fen-like peat follows the River Lark past the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Icklingham
4 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.
- 01All Saints Church, Icklingham
All Saints' Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Icklingham, Suffolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
1.7 km · church in Icklingham, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village is an archaeological site and an open-air museum located near to West Stow in Suffolk, eastern England. Evidence for intermittent human habitation at the site stretches from the Mesolithic through the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Romano-British period, but it is best known for the small village that existed on the site between the mid-5th century and the early 7th century CE, during the early Anglo-Saxon period.
3.1 km · archaeological open-air museum in West Stow, Suffolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Beeches Pit
Beeches Pit is an archaeological site in Suffolk, England, dated to around 0.4 million years ago. It contains palaeoenvironmental remains, and is particularly notable because it provides evidence of the human use of fire, the earliest in Britain and one of the earliest in Europe.
3.2 km · archaeological site in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Cavenham - Icklingham Heaths
Cavenham–Icklingham Heaths is a 419 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Icklingham in Suffolk. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, and part of Breckland Special Area of Conservation and Breckland Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.
2.6 km · Uk Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Icklingham
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 53 km · London Luton (LTN), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 118 km
- London, Essex → Icklingham104 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £11–15
- Luton, Luton → Icklingham85 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
- London → Icklingham104 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Icklingham
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 Icklingham. 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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