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Martlesham

Martlesham is a village in Suffolk, England about two miles (3 km) south-west of Woodbridge and 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Ipswich.

Martlesham
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The place

Martlesham is a village in Suffolk, England about two miles (3 km) south-west of Woodbridge and 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Ipswich. It is often referred to as "old Martlesham" by locals in order to distinguish this old village from the much more recent Martlesham Heath development (1 km) to the south, although both form a single administrative parish. Also at Martlesham Heath is BT's Research and Development Centre, now called Adastral Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Martlesham

6 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
    Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum

    Woodbridge Tide Mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England is a rare example of a tide mill whose water wheel still turns and is capable of grinding a wholemeal flour. The mill is a Grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · tide mill and museum in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Thomas of Canterbury

    The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Roman Catholic church in St John's Street in Woodbridge, Suffolk. It has been part of the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia since 1976, and before that was in the Diocese of Northampton.

    3.5 km · Roman Catholic church in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Playford Hall

    Playford Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Playford, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Playford Hall is set in 30 acres, the gardens were designed in 1960 by Lady Penelope Aitken.

    3.8 km · country mansion in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ipswich Heaths

    Ipswich Heaths is a 39.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ipswich in Suffolk. The site consists of two separate areas in Martlesham Heath and Purdis Heath.

    3.6 km · site of special scientific interest in Ipswich, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sinks Valley, Kesgrave

    Sinks Valley is a 24.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kesgrave, on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk, United Kingdom. This site has diverse semi-natural habitats, with alder and oak woodland, a brook with fringing swamp, wet and dry grassland, spring fed fen and heath.

    2.4 km · site of Specific Scientific Interest in the UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kesgrave Hall

    Kesgrave Hall is a country house located in woodlands north of the town of Kesgrave, which itself is on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. It was constructed in 1812 by William Cunliffe-Shawe, and has been extended since, notably by the addition of a northern extension.

    1.7 km · building in Kesgrave, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Martlesham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 75 km · London Luton (LTN), 115 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 137 km
Stations
Woodbridge railway station, 3.1 km · Bealings railway station, 2 km
  • London, Essex → Martlesham
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–16
  • London → Martlesham
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Martlesham
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Martlesham

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 Martlesham. 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

    236 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    423 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    573 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    607 km

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

Around it

Next door to Martlesham

  • Woodbridgetown in Suffolk, England3.5 km
  • Kesgravetown and civil parish in East Suffolk, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Great Bealingsvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK2.9 km
  • Hasketonvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Waldringfieldvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Little Bealingsvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.3 km