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Preston St Mary

Preston St Mary is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

Preston St Mary
Preston St Mary · Francis Franklin
The place

Preston St Mary is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Located to the north-east of Lavenham. The parish includes the hamlets of Rooksey Green and Whelp Street. In 2011 the parish had a population of 177.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Preston St Mary

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
    Lavenham Wool Hall

    Lavenham Wool Hall, also known as the Swan Hotel, is a timber framed building on Lady Street in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Dating from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries, it has been protected since 1958 as a listed building.

    3.3 km · building in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham

    St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Lavenham, Suffolk. It is a notable wool church and regarded as one of the finest examples of Late Perpendicular Gothic architecture in England.

    3.7 km · church in Lavenham, 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.

    400 m · church in Preston St Mary, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lavenham Guildhall

    Lavenham Guildhall is a timber-framed municipal building in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. It is Grade I listed.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed local museum in Babergh, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.4 km · church in Brent Eleigh, 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.

    3.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Preston St Mary

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 49 km · London Luton (LTN), 87 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 115 km
Stations
Lavenham railway station, 3 km
  • London, Essex → Preston St Mary
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–14
  • London → Preston St Mary
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Preston St Mary
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Preston St Mary

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 Preston St Mary. 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

    218 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    307 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    394 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    549 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    583 km

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Around it

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