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Layham

Layham is a small village and a civil parish in southern Suffolk, England, situated between the town of Hadleigh, and the neighbouring village of Raydon.

Layham
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The place

Layham is a small village and a civil parish in southern Suffolk, England, situated between the town of Hadleigh, and the neighbouring village of Raydon.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Layham

7 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
    St Mary, Hadleigh

    St Mary's is an Anglican church in Hadleigh, Suffolk. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and the archdeaconry of Ipswich.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed church in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Giffords Hall

    Giffords Hall is a Tudor manor house two miles north-east of Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk, England. It was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the loveliest houses of its date in England".

    3.8 km · grade I listed building in Babergh, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Town Hall

    Hadleigh Town Hall, also referred to as the New Town Hall, is a municipal building in the Market Place in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Hadleigh Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    1.9 km · town hall in Hadleigh, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Benton End House

    Benton End is a Grade II* listed sixteenth-century house located on the outskirts of the market town of Hadleigh in Suffolk, England. From 1939 to 1982 it was home to the artist Cedric Morris, who ran the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the house, and in the garden grew a significant botanical collection.

    600 m · house in Hadleigh, Babergh, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    124 and 126, High Street

    The Shoulder of Mutton was a public house in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England. It originally occupied 124 and 126 Hadleigh High Street.

    2.3 km · building in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Railway Walk, Hadleigh

    Railway Walk, Hadleigh is an 11.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve which runs for 2 miles along the route of the former Hadleigh railway south-east from Hadleigh in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Babergh District Council.

    1 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Riverside Walk, Hadleigh

    Riverside Walk is a 4.6-hectare Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Hadleigh in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Babergh District Council.

    2.1 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Layham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 53 km · London Luton (LTN), 93 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
Stations
Raydon Wood railway station, 2.5 km
  • London, Essex → Layham
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £10–14
  • London → Layham
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £10–14
  • Luton, Luton → Layham
    3 km · quickest by road, 14 min · £0.5
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Layham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRural bus and minibus services run to surrounding villages, although some are very infrequent.

From Wikivoyage: Ipswich (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    217 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    304 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    401 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    562 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    596 km

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

Around it

Next door to Layham

  • Hadleightown in Babergh, Suffolk, England1.8 km
  • Baberghnon-metropolitan district in Suffolk, England2.5 km
  • Aldhamvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, UK3.6 km
  • Raydonvillage in Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK2.7 km
  • Shelleyvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Hadleigh Heathhamlet in Suffolk, England, UK3.6 km