Village in Suffolk, England

Monks Eleigh

Monks Eleigh is a village and a civil parish in Babergh, Suffolk, United Kingdom, situated on the tributary to the River Brett in a rural area.

Plan a trip to Monks Eleigh→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Monks Eleigh
94 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £11–14
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London → Monks Eleigh
94 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £11–14
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Luton, Luton → Monks Eleigh
91 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £10–14
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Monks Eleigh, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Monks Eleigh has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 49 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Ipswich, 20 km.

52.092°, 0.869°

The parish contains the hamlets of Swingleton Green and Stackyard Green.

How locals move

Getting around Monks Eleigh the local way

Get inThe complete route requires ferry crossings, and follows a mix of on- and off-road paths and terrains.

From Wikivoyage: Long Melford, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Martinevans123 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.