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Rushmere St Andrew

Rushmere St Andrew is a village, civil parish and electoral ward adjacent to part of the eastern edge of the borough of Ipswich in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.

The place

Rushmere St Andrew is a village, civil parish and electoral ward adjacent to part of the eastern edge of the borough of Ipswich in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The parish includes most of Rushmere Heath and parts of the Ipswich suburb of Broke Hall as well as the village of Rushmere St. Andrew, from which it draws its name. The parish was formed in 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Rushmere.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rushmere St Andrew

10 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
    University of Suffolk

    The University of Suffolk is a public university situated in Suffolk and Norfolk, England. The university was established in 2007 as University Campus Suffolk, founded as a collaboration between the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex.

    3.7 km · university in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Saint Pancras Church

    Saint Pancras is an active Roman Catholic parish church serving the town centre of Ipswich, England. The neo-Gothic church was built as part of the British Catholic revival in the nineteenth century, and was the target of anti-Catholic riots soon after completion.

    3.9 km · catholic church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Christchurch Park

    Christchurch Park is a historical area of rolling lawns, wooded areas, and delicately created arboreta close to the town centre in Ipswich, Suffolk. The park hosts various facilities such as a children's play area, tennis courts, table tennis, bowling greens and outdoor gym equipment.

    3.8 km · public park in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Alexandra Park

    Alexandra Park is situated between Grove Lane, Kings Avenue and Back Hamlet, Ipswich.

    3.4 km · park in Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Holywells Park

    Holywells Park is a 67-acre public park in Ipswich, England situated between Nacton Road and Cliff Lane, near to the Ipswich Waterfront.

    3.5 km · park in Ipswich, Suffolk, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ipswich Blackfriars

    Ipswich Blackfriars was a medieval religious house of Friars-preachers in the town of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, founded in 1263 by King Henry III and dissolved in 1538. It was the second of the three mendicant communities established in the town, the first being the Greyfriars, a house of Franciscan Friars Minors, and the third the Ipswich Whitefriars of c.

    3.9 km · church in Ipswich, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Christchurch Mansion

    Christchurch Mansion is a substantial Tudor brick mansion house built in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, by Edmund Withypoll around 1548–1550. The Grade I listed building is located within Christchurch Park and sits by the southern gates close to the town centre of Ipswich.

    3.8 km · historic house museum in Ipswich, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Margaret

    St Margaret's Church is a medieval church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It was built in around 1300 by the Augustinian canons of the adjacent Priory of the Holy Trinity to cater for the increasing population.

    3.8 km · church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Old Ipswich Cemetery

    Old Ipswich Cemetery is a cemetery in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was opened in 1855. It is one of a group of cemeteries run by Ipswich Borough Council.

    2.9 km · cemetery in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Priory of the Holy Trinity

    The Priory of the Holy Trinity was a priory in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. A church of that dedication was named in the Domesday Book, although the building date of the priory was 1177.

    3.8 km · monastery in Ipswich, Suffolk, England · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Rushmere St Andrew

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 70 km · London Luton (LTN), 110 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 133 km
Stations
Derby Road railway station, 2.6 km · Westerfield railway station, 3.6 km · Bealings railway station, 3.2 km · Port of Ipswich, 3.6 km
  • London, Essex → Rushmere St Andrew
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £11–15
  • London → Rushmere St Andrew
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Rushmere St Andrew
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rushmere St Andrew

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 Rushmere St Andrew. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRural bus and minibus services run to surrounding villages, although some are very infrequent.

From Wikivoyage: Ipswich (England), 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

    232 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    287 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    418 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    571 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    604 km

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