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Woolverstone

Woolverstone is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England located on the Shotley peninsula.

Woolverstone
Woolverstone · Jasmin Higgs
The place

Woolverstone is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England located on the Shotley peninsula. It is situated about 6.4 km (4.0 mi) south of Ipswich, near the southern shore of the River Orwell. In 2005 it had a population of 240, increasing to 265 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Woolverstone

9 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
    Woolverstone Hall

    Woolverstone Hall is a large country house, now in use as a school and available at times as a function venue, located 5 miles south of the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It is set in 80 acres on the banks of the River Orwell.

    800 m · Grade I listed building in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broke Hall

    Broke Hall is an English country house at Nacton, near Ipswich, Suffolk. It overlooks the River Orwell, opposite Pin Mill.

    3.7 km · house in Nacton, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Freston and Cutler's Woods with Holbrook Park

    Freston and Cutler's Woods with Holbrook Park is a 142 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Ipswich in Suffolk. The site is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty These ancient woods have woodland types typical of spring-fed valleys and light sandy soils.

    3.2 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Martin's Church, Nacton

    St Martin's Church is located in the village of Nacton near Ipswich. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Colneys, part of the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

    3.2 km · church in Nacton, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wherstead Park

    Wherstead Park Mansion in Suffolk is a house of historical significance and is listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in 1792 for Sir Robert Harland by the famous architect Sir Jeffry Wyatville on the site of an older house.

    3.5 km · English country house in Wherstead, Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bridge Wood

    Bridge Wood is a 31 hectare Local Nature Reserve on the southern outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. It is owned and managed by Ipswich Borough Council, and is part of Orwell Country Park.

    1.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Pipers Vale

    Pipers Vale is a 19.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve on the southern outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by Ipswich Borough Council.

    3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Freston Tower

    Freston Tower is a six-storey red brick folly south of Ipswich, Suffolk in the village of Freston. It stands on the banks of the River Orwell.

    1.4 km · folly tower in Freston, Babergh, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Leighton Road Evangelical Church

    Leighton Road Evangelical Church is a nonconformist independent evangelical church located on the Gainsborough estate, Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. Gainsborough estate is an urban priority area council housing estate on the south east side of Ipswich.

    3.1 km · church in Ipswich, Suffolk, 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.

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Getting to Woolverstone

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 66 km · London Luton (LTN), 107 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 128 km
Stations
Ipswich Airport, 3.2 km
  • London, Essex → Woolverstone
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £11–15
  • London → Woolverstone
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £11–15
  • Luton, Luton → Woolverstone
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £15–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woolverstone

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 Woolverstone. 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

    292 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    415 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    574 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    608 km

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

Around it

Next door to Woolverstone

  • Chelmondistonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK2.2 km
  • Holbrookvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, UK2.7 km
  • Frestonvillage and civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, England, UK1.8 km
  • Harksteadvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.8 km
  • Whersteadvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.9 km
  • Nactonvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3.7 km