Raydon
Raydon is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England.

Raydon is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located around two miles south-east of Hadleigh, it is part of Babergh district. The parish also includes the hamlets of Lower Raydon (west) and The Woodlands (east). It was recorded in Domesday as "Reindune" or "Reinduna" and appears on John Speed's 1610 map as "Roydon".
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Worth seeing in and around Raydon
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.
- 01All Saints Church, Little Wenham
All Saints Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Little Wenham, Suffolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.1 km · church in Little Wenham, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Giffords Hall
Giffords Hall is a Tudor manor house two miles north-east of Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk, England. It was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the loveliest houses of its date in England".
3.4 km · grade I listed building in Babergh, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Benton End House
Benton End is a Grade II* listed sixteenth-century house located on the outskirts of the market town of Hadleigh in Suffolk, England. From 1939 to 1982 it was home to the artist Cedric Morris, who ran the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the house, and in the garden grew a significant botanical collection.
3.3 km · house in Hadleigh, Babergh, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Railway Walk, Hadleigh
Railway Walk, Hadleigh is an 11.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve which runs for 2 miles along the route of the former Hadleigh railway south-east from Hadleigh in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Babergh District Council.
2.6 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Raydon
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 53 km · London Luton (LTN), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
- Stations
- Raydon Wood railway station, 2.2 km
- London, Essex → Raydon95 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £10–13
- London → Raydon95 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £10–13
- Luton, Luton → Raydon97 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Raydon
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 Raydon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inRural bus and minibus services run to surrounding villages, although some are very infrequent.
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- Layhamvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.7 km
- Wenham Magnacivil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England2 km
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