Sudbury

Worth seeing in and around Sudbury

8 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
   Borley Rectory

   Borley Rectory was a house located in Borley, Essex, famous for being described as "the most haunted house in England" by psychic researcher Harry Price. Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley and his family, the house was badly damaged by fire in 1939 and demolished in 1944.

   3.1 km · building in Borley, Essex, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Borley Church

   Borley Church is the parish church in Borley, Essex, England. The church is in the ecclesiastical parish of Borley and Liston, one of the Fifteen Churches of the North Hinckford Benefice in the Diocese of Chelmsford of the Church of England.

   3.2 km · parish church in Borley, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Gainsborough's House

   Gainsborough's House is the birthplace of the leading English painter Thomas Gainsborough. It is now a museum and gallery, located at 46 Gainsborough Street in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.

   200 m · museum in Sudbury, United Kingdom, birthplace of the leading English painter Thomas Gainsborough · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Church of St Gregory, Sudbury

   The Church of St Gregory, Sudbury is a Church of England parish church, located in the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, England. First mentioned in the 10th century, most of the present building dates from the 14th and 15th centuries.

   400 m · church in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Peter's Church, Sudbury

   St Peter's Church, Sudbury is a former Anglican church in the town of Sudbury, Suffolk, England, which now serves as an Arts Centre. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   0 m · church in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Chilton Hall

   Chilton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Chilton, Suffolk, England. The current building replaced an important moated medieval house.

   2.1 km · house in Chilton, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Abbas Hall

   Abbas Hall is a small country house in Great Cornard, a village located near the town of Sudbury, Suffolk in England, the Elizabethan exterior of which masks a medieval two-bay aisled hall of c.1290, from which two massive oak posts with moulded capitals and two arches of the screens passage survive. The inserted floor in the great hall was put in about 1548–49.

   2.8 km · Grade I listed building in Babergh, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Mary's Church, Chilton

   St Mary's Church is a redundant Church of England parish church in the civil parish of Chilton, Suffolk, England. It is a Grade I listed building, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   1.8 km · church in Chilton, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sudbury

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 38 km · London Luton (LTN), 78 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 104 km

Stations

Sudbury railway station, 400 m · Long Melford railway station, 3.3 km

• London → Sudbury

  15 km · quickest by road, 54 min · £1.5–2
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• Luton, Luton → Sudbury

  37 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £4–5
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sudbury

  163 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £18–24
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