Shingle Street
Shingle Street is a coastal settlement on the North Sea coast of the English county of Suffolk.
Shingle Street is a coastal settlement on the North Sea coast of the English county of Suffolk. It is 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Felixstowe and 12 miles (19 km) east of Ipswich at the mouth of the River Ore and opposite the tip of Orford Ness. It is within the parish of Bawdsey, with HM Young Offender Institution Hollesley Bay Colony nearby. A report from October 2004 suggests that Shingle Street is at risk from coastal erosion and flooding and could disappear within 20 years if sea defences are not erected.
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Getting to Shingle Street
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 85 km · London Luton (LTN), 126 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 135 km
- London, Essex → Shingle Street123 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–18
- London → Shingle Street123 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £14–18
- Luton, Luton → Shingle Street129 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Shingle Street
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 Shingle Street. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe nearest station is Butley ferry is an ancient foot ferry to the south of Orford.
From Wikivoyage: Orford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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