Woolpit
Woolpit is a village in the English county of Suffolk, midway between the towns of Bury St.
Woolpit is a village in the English county of Suffolk, midway between the towns of Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket. In 2011 Woolpit parish had a population of 1,995. It is notable for the 12th-century legend of the green children of Woolpit and for its parish church, which has especially fine medieval woodwork. Administratively Woolpit is a civil parish, part of the district of Mid Suffolk.
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Worth seeing in and around Woolpit
2 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.
- 01Haughley Park
Haughley Park House in Stowmarket, Suffolk is an historical house of significance listed in the English Heritage Register. It is a large red brick country house built in about 1620 for the Sulyard family who were very prominent landowners in this area.
3.1 km · Grade I listed building in Mid Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church of St Mary, Woolpit
Saint Mary's Church is the parish church of Woolpit, Suffolk, England. Much of the church was built in the fifteenth century but its most salient feature, the spire, was rebuilt in 1870, thanks to the architect Richard Phipson.
100 m · church in Woolpit, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Woolpit
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 58 km · London Luton (LTN), 94 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 125 km
- Stations
- Elmswell railway station, 2.2 km
- London, Essex → Woolpit106 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
- London → Woolpit106 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
- Luton, Luton → Woolpit97 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–14
- 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 Woolpit
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 Woolpit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMotorists, cyclists and pedestrians can use Stena Line ferries from Rotterdam () to Harwich.
- Get inThe Harwich Harbour Ferry operates from Harwich Ha'penny Pier in Essex to and .
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