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 is a small village and a civil parish in southern Suffolk, England, situated between the town of Hadleigh, and the neighbouring village of Raydon.
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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.
- 01St 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 - 02Giffords 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 - 03Town 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 - 04Benton 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 - 05124 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 - 06Railway 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 - 07Riverside 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 → Layham94 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £10–14
- London → Layham94 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £10–14
- Luton, Luton → Layham3 km · quickest by road, 14 min · £0.5
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get inRural bus and minibus services run to surrounding villages, although some are very infrequent.
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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