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Sproughton

Sproughton is a village in Suffolk, England, just to the west of Ipswich and is in the Babergh administrative district.

Sproughton
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The place

Sproughton is a village in Suffolk, England, just to the west of Ipswich and is in the Babergh administrative district. It has a church, a primary school, a pub, a community shop and various groups. It is in the Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sproughton

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
    Portman Road

    Portman Road is a football stadium in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, which has been the home ground of Ipswich Town since 1884. The stadium has also hosted many England youth international matches, and one senior England friendly international match, against Croatia in 2003.

    3.5 km · football stadium in Ipswich, Suffolk, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chantry Park

    Chantry Park is a park located west of Ipswich town centre, in the Ipswich district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is the largest park in Ipswich and extends over 124 acres.

    1.9 km · park in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gippeswyk Park

    Gippeswyk Park is a park in the South West of Ipswich in England. It was bequeathed to Ipswich by the MP Felix Cobbold.

    3 km · park in Ipswich, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Washbrook

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Washbrook, Suffolk, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.7 km · church in Washbrook, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ipswich Museum

    Ipswich Museum is a registered museum of culture, history and natural heritage, located in a Grade II* listed building on High Street in Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. It was historically the leading regional museum in Suffolk, housing collections drawn from both the former counties of East Suffolk and West Suffolk, which were amalgamated in 1974.

    3.8 km · Museum in Ipswich, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Broomhill Park

    Broomhill Park is a semi-natural woodland park between Sherrington Road and Valley Road in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. In older times it was called Broom Hill.

    3.4 km · woodland park in Ipswich, Suffolk, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    New Wolsey Theatre

    The New Wolsey Theatre is a producing theatre with a café & bar in Ipswich, Suffolk. It is a midsized regional theatre, with a seating capacity of 400.

    3.6 km · theatre in Ipswich, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Old London Road

    Old London Road is a cricket ground in Copdock, Suffolk. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1847, when the Gentlemen of Suffolk played the Gentlemen of Norfolk.

    3.8 km · Cricket ground in Suffolk, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    10 Reavell Place

    10 Reavell Place is a 37 metres, 12 storey residential building located on the River Gipping, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The building consists of residential units with no commercial outlets.

    3.2 km · building in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Goldrood House

    Goldrood House is a Grade II listed building in Chantry, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The building is currently part of St Joseph's College.

    3.5 km · house in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Sproughton

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 62 km · London Luton (LTN), 102 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 126 km
Stations
Ipswich railway station, 3.6 km · Bramford railway station, 1.6 km
  • London, Essex → Sproughton
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £11–14
  • London → Sproughton
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £11–14
  • Luton, Luton → Sproughton
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sproughton

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 Sproughton. 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

    226 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    410 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    565 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    599 km

If you know how people move in Sproughton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sproughton

  • Hintleshamvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.4 km
  • Burstallvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK2.6 km
  • Belsteadvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England3.9 km
  • Pinewoodcivil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, United Kingdom3 km
  • Bramfordvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK1.3 km
  • Washbrookvillage in Suffolk, United Kingdom3.3 km