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Westerfield

Westerfield is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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The place

Westerfield is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich and is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Westerfield

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.

    3.6 km · football stadium in Ipswich, Suffolk, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.4 km · university in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.2 km · catholic church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.4 km · public park in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · 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.

    4 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.

    3.3 km · church in Ipswich, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Alexandra Park

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

    3.3 km · park in Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.2 km · theatre in Ipswich, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Mary at Stoke

    Saint Mary at Stoke is a Grade I listed Anglican church in the Over Stoke area of Ipswich. The church stands in a prominent position at the foot of a ridge near Stoke Bridge and the town centre.

    3.8 km · church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    2.9 km · Museum in Ipswich, United Kingdom · 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.

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Getting to Westerfield

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 68 km · London Luton (LTN), 108 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 131 km
Stations
Westerfield railway station, 500 m · Derby Road railway station, 3.6 km
  • London, Essex → Westerfield
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–15
  • London → Westerfield
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Westerfield
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Westerfield

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 Westerfield. 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

    231 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    289 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    416 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    567 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    601 km

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

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