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Rushbrooke with Rougham

Rushbrooke with Rougham is a large civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England covering the villages of Blackthorpe, Rougham and Rushbrooke as well as Rougham Airfield.

Rushbrooke with Rougham
Rushbrooke with Rougham · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Rushbrooke with Rougham is a large civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England covering the villages of Blackthorpe, Rougham and Rushbrooke as well as Rougham Airfield. Located directly south-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 1,140. One 'Henry of Rushbrook' was Abbot of Bury St Edmunds from 1235 to 1248. The site of a former stately home, Rushbrooke Hall, is situated to the south of Rushbrooke. Until April 2019 it was in the St Edmundsbury district. The parish was created on 1 April 1988 from Rougham and parts of Great Barton, Great Whelnetham and Rushbrooke.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rushbrooke with Rougham

2 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
    Moreton Hall

    Moreton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Bury St Edmunds, a market town in the county of Suffolk, England. It was designed by the Scottish architect Robert Adam and built in 1773 as a country house for John Symonds, a clergyman and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.

    3.9 km · country house in Suffolk, UK in use as a school · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nowton Park

    Nowton Park is a park in Nowton, Suffolk, England. It is approximately 2 miles south of the centre of Bury St Edmunds.

    4 km · park in Nowton, England · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Rushbrooke with Rougham

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 54 km · London Luton (LTN), 88 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 120 km
Stations
Thurston railway station, 2.6 km · Welnetham railway station, 3.8 km
  • London, Essex → Rushbrooke with Rougham
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £12–16
  • Luton, Luton → Rushbrooke with Rougham
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
  • London → Rushbrooke with Rougham
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rushbrooke with Rougham

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    305 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    394 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    537 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    571 km

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