Iken
Iken is a small village and civil parish in the sandlands of the English county of Suffolk, an area formerly of heathland and sheep pasture.
Iken is a small village and civil parish in the sandlands of the English county of Suffolk, an area formerly of heathland and sheep pasture. It is near the estuary of the River Alde on the North Sea coast and is located south east of Snape and due north of Orford. To its west is Tunstall Forest, created since the 1920s by the Forestry Commission and now part of the Sandlings Forest.
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Worth seeing in and around Iken
2 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.
- 01Red House Farm Pit
Red House Farm Pit is a 0.5-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Wickham Market in Suffolk. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
2.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 02Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
The Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is a place of burial dated to the 6th century AD located on Snape Common, near to the town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, Eastern England. Dating to the early part of the Anglo-Saxon Era of English history, it contains a variety of different forms of burial, with inhumation and cremation burials being found in roughly equal proportions.
3.6 km · Anglo-Saxon burial site · Wikipedia
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Getting to Iken
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 93 km · London Luton (LTN), 133 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 140 km
- London, Essex → Iken133 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £14–19
- London → Iken133 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £14–19
- Luton, Luton → Iken136 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £15–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Iken
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 Iken. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe nearest station is Butley ferry is an ancient foot ferry to the south of Orford.
From Wikivoyage: Orford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Iken
- Snapevillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3.5 km
- Sudbournevillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom2.1 km
- Chillesfordvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.8 km