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Monks Eleigh

Monks Eleigh is a village and a civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, United Kingdom, situated on the tributary to the River Brett in a rural area.

Monks Eleigh
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The place

Monks Eleigh is a village and a civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, United Kingdom, situated on the tributary to the River Brett in a rural area. The parish contains the hamlets of Swingleton Green and Stackyard Green.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Monks Eleigh

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
    Milden Castle

    Milden Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle on Foxburrow hill in Milden, a village in Suffolk, England. It had been built by the twelfth century, and seems to have been involved in hostilities during the Anarchy.

    2.2 km · castle in Milden, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James' Chapel, Lindsey

    St James' Chapel is a 13th-century chapel located near the village of Lindsey, Suffolk, which served as a chantry chapel for nearby Lindsey castle. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building and scheduled monument.

    3.4 km · church in Lindsey, Suffolk in Lindsey, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is the parish church for Preston St Mary, in the county of Suffolk, England. Originally built in the 14th century it suffered lightning damage in 1758, and was substantially restored by Arthur Blomfield in 1868.

    3.4 km · church in Preston St Mary, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Brent Eleigh

    The church of St Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

    2.5 km · church in Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Clock Tower

    The Clock Tower is a clock tower in the market place, in the centre of Bildeston, Suffolk, England. It was erected in 1864.

    3.2 km · clock tower in Bildeston, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Brent Eleigh Woods

    Brent Eleigh Woods is a 31.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Lavenham in Suffolk, England. This site consists of three separate areas, Spragg's, Langley and Camps Woods.

    2.6 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · 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.

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Getting to Monks Eleigh

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 49 km · London Luton (LTN), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 115 km
  • London, Essex → Monks Eleigh
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £11–14
  • London → Monks Eleigh
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Monks Eleigh
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Monks Eleigh

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe complete route requires ferry crossings, and follows a mix of on- and off-road paths and terrains.

From Wikivoyage: Long Melford, 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

    307 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    395 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    552 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    586 km

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Around it

Next door to Monks Eleigh

  • Bildestonvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England3.3 km
  • Lindseyvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England3 km
  • Mildenvillage in Suffolk, England, UK1.4 km
  • Hitchamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England in the United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Kettlebastonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.6 km
  • Brent Eleighvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.6 km