Village in Suffolk, England

Raydon

Raydon is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England.

Plan a trip to Raydon→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Raydon
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £10–13
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London → Raydon
95 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £10–13
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Luton, Luton → Raydon
97 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–18
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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 Raydon, 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 Raydon has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 53 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesWivenhoe Fingringhoe Rowhedge Ferry, 17 km; sailings estimated
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, 13 km.

52.007°, 0.986°

Located around two miles south-east of Hadleigh, it is part of Babergh district. The parish also includes the hamlets of Lower Raydon (west) and The Woodlands (east). It was recorded in Domesday as "Reindune" or "Reinduna" and appears on John Speed's 1610 map as "Roydon".

How locals move

Getting around Raydon the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.