Risby
Risby is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, located around 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Bury St.
Risby is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, located around 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Bury St. Edmunds, north of the A14 road. It is believed that the village was founded in about the tenth century, presumably on the strength of its having a Norse name, possibly Rȳðs - by "farm settlement at a clearing" and identical to Ryssby in Sweden. The traditional division or Hundred in which it stands is Thingoe, also a Norse name. The village now has a population of 840, increasing to 866 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Risby
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.
- 01Hengrave Hall
Hengrave Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house in Hengrave near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England and was the seat of the Kitson and Gage families 1525–1887.
3.3 km · Grade I listed building in Suffolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave
The Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave is the former parish church of Hengrave, Suffolk. In 1589 this parish was consolidated with that of adjacent Flempton, and since then it has solely been used as a place of interment for the residents of Hengrave Hall, who have ensured the church is properly maintained.
3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Hengrave, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Great Saxham Hall
Great Saxham Hall is a two-storey Palladian house situated at Great Saxham, just outside Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.8 km · house in The Saxhams, West Suffolk, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Risby
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 50 km · London Luton (LTN), 81 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 116 km
- Stations
- Saxham and Risby railway station, 1.1 km
- London, Essex → Risby99 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Risby84 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
- London → Risby99 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–14
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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 Risby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSee Ferry routes to Great Britain Bury St Edmunds is about 50 miles (80 km) inland of the easternmost coast of England.
- Get inFor more conventional ship travel, the nearest passenger ferry port is at Harwich (48 miles) for the Netherlands, Denmark and cruises to Germany and Scandinavia.
- Get inGreater Anglia train services from Harwich International port (ferry connections to Scandinavia and the Netherlands) direct to Bury St Edmunds (1 hr 6 min).
- Get inSouth Eastern train services to Stratford International (London) station from Dover (1 hr 4 min - for ferry connections to France) and Ramsgate (1 hr 11 min - for ferry connections to Belgium).
From Wikivoyage: Bury St Edmunds, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Risby
- Flemptonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.8 km
- Lackfordvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Westleyvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Hengravevillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.6 km
- The Saxhamscivil parish in Suffolk, UK2.8 km