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Offton

Offton is a village in Suffolk, England.

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The place

Offton is a village in Suffolk, England. The name is derived from the Old English "Offas farm/settlement", suggesting a potential Anglo-Saxon origin for the settlement, if not earlier.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Offton

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
    Barking Woods

    Barking Woods is a 98.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in six separate blocks north-east of Ipswich in Suffolk. Part of it is a 20-hectare nature reserve called Bonny Wood, which is owned and managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.

    2.8 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Great Bricett Hall

    Great Bricett Hall is a grade I listed farmhouse in the village of Great Bricett, Suffolk, England. It was built in the mid-13th century as the hall of the Augustinian Priory of St Leonard, next to the north side of what is now the Church of St Mary & St Laurence.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Middle Wood, Offton

    Middle Wood, Offton is a 23.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Offton in Suffolk. This is a medieval coppice with standards wood on wet boulder clay, and it has very diverse ground flora, including species typical of ancient woodland.

    700 m · biological site in Suffolk, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Offton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 59 km · London Luton (LTN), 98 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 124 km
  • London, Essex → Offton
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £12–16
  • London → Offton
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Offton
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Offton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMotorists, cyclists and pedestrians can use Stena Line ferries from Rotterdam () to Harwich.
  • Get inThe Harwich Harbour Ferry operates from Harwich Ha'penny Pier in Essex to and .

From Wikivoyage: Suffolk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-01.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    225 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    297 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    558 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    592 km

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

Around it

Next door to Offton

  • Barkingvillage in Suffolk, England3.5 km
  • Elmsettvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.2 km
  • Flowtonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.4 km
  • Great Bricettvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.8 km
  • Somershamvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England2.1 km
  • Nettlesteadvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK2.5 km