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Kessingland

Kessingland is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk.

Kessingland
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The place

Kessingland is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located around 4 miles (6 km) south of Lowestoft on the east coast of the United Kingdom. It is of interest to archaeologists as Palaeolithic and Neolithic implements have been found here; the remains of an ancient forest lie buried on the seabed. It also lays a claim to being the most easterly village in England.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kessingland

3 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.

  1. 01
    Pakefield Lighthouse

    Pakefield Lighthouse is a decommissioned 19th century lighthouse which was built near Pakefield a suburb of Lowestoft in Suffolk. The lighthouse tower has been used for a variety of maritime, civilian and military roles, and is currently used as a Coastwatch coastal surveillance station.

    2 km · 19th century lighthouse near Pakefield, a suburb of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Africa Alive!

    Africa Alive Zoological Reserve, formerly known as Africa Alive! and Suffolk Wildlife Park, is a zoo located in Kessingland, Suffolk, UK. It is situated off the A12 at Kessingland 2 miles south of Lowestoft.

    1.2 km · British Zoo · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Benacre Hall

    Benacre Hall is a Grade II listed country house and estate in Benacre, Suffolk. The current house is high Georgian, with Palladian geometric influence and figures externally roughly as it stood on its building, in 1764.

    3.9 km · country house in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kessingland

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 118 km · London Luton (LTN), 155 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 157 km
  • London, Essex → Kessingland
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £17–22
  • London → Kessingland
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £17–22
  • Luton, Luton → Kessingland
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kessingland

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    238 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    284 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    461 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    569 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    601 km

If you know how people move in Kessingland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kessingland

  • Gislehamvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.6 km
  • Benacrevillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK2.6 km
  • Rushmerevillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3.4 km
  • Henstead with Hulver Streetcivil parish in Waveney, Suffolk, England3.8 km
  • Pakefieldsuburb of Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Hensteadvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.8 km