Old Newton
Old Newton is a village in the civil parish of Old Newton with Dagworth, in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.
Old Newton is a village in the civil parish of Old Newton with Dagworth, in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The village is situated around two miles north of Stowmarket, to the east of the junction of the Great Eastern Main Line and the Ipswich to Ely Line. Until the Beeching Axe it was served by Haughley railway station. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 809.
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Worth seeing in and around Old Newton
4 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.
- 01Haughley Castle
Haughley Castle was a medieval castle situated in the village of Haughley, some 4 kilometres north-west of the town of Stowmarket, Suffolk. Prominent historians such as J. Wall consider it "the most perfect earthwork of this type in the county," whilst R. Allen Brown has described it as "one of the most important" castle sites in East Anglia.
2.6 km · castle in Suffolk, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Peter and St Mary
The Church of St Peter and St Mary stands in the town of Stowmarket, Suffolk, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
3.9 km · church in Stowmarket, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Stow Lodge
Stow Lodge is a listed building in the parish of Onehouse in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Constructed in 1781 as Union Work House, a House of Industry for the 14 parishes of the Stow Hundred, it was subsequently used as a hospital and is now residential flats.
3.9 km · building in Onehouse, Mid Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Gipping Great Wood
Gipping Great Wood is a 25.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Gipping in Suffolk. This is an ancient coppice with standards wood with a variety of woodland types.
2.3 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
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Getting to Old Newton
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 65 km · London Luton (LTN), 101 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 131 km
- Stations
- Stowmarket railway station, 3.7 km · Haughley railway station, 1 km
- London, Essex → Old Newton111 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–18
- London → Old Newton111 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–18
- Luton, Luton → Old Newton104 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Old Newton
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 Old Newton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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 .
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Next door to Old Newton
- Stowmarkettown and civil parish in Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, England3.7 km
- Haughleyvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK2.3 km
- Stowuplandvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK3.2 km
- Gippingvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.1 km
- Old Newton with Dagworthcivil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom700 m
- Haughley Greenvillage in Suffolk, UK2.8 km