Village in Suffolk, England

Shimpling

Shimpling is a village and civil parish in south Suffolk, England.

Plan a trip to Shimpling→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Shimpling
91 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £10–14
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Luton, Luton → Shimpling
83 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–15
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London → Shimpling
91 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £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 Shimpling, 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 Shimpling has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 43 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
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: Colchester, 30 km.

52.130°, 0.718°

About 7 miles (11 km) from Bury St Edmunds, it is part of Babergh district. The village is formed from two halves, the newer Shimpling Street and about 2 miles (3 km) away the old village of Shimpling. The village has a Church of England parish church, where supermodel Claudia Schiffer and film producer Matthew Vaughn were married on 25 May 2002.

How locals move

Getting around Shimpling 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: Spoddendale (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.