Kentford
Kentford is a village and civil parish located in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.
Kentford is a village and civil parish located in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Situated on the banks of the River Kennet, the village is positioned on the B1506 road connecting Newmarket to Bury St. Edmunds. The village is served by the Kennett railway station, located just off the A14, which offers an indirect railway connection to London via Cambridge. Kentford is located about four miles northeast of Newmarket and nine miles west of Bury St. Edmunds. The village falls within the Bury St. Edmunds division of the county and is divided between the Lackford and Risbridge Hundred. Kentford is also part of the Newmarket petty sessional division, Mildenhall union and county court district, rural deanery of Newmarket, archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The population of Kentford was estimated to be 1125 as of 2021.
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Worth seeing in and around Kentford
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.
- 01Parish 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.
1.8 km · church in Kennett, Cambridgeshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kentford
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 47 km · London Luton (LTN), 74 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 111 km
- Stations
- Kennett railway station, 1.1 km · Higham railway station, 3.8 km
- London, Essex → Kentford95 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–14
- Luton, Luton → Kentford77 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
- London → Kentford95 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kentford
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 Kentford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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