Village in Suffolk, England

Woolpit

Woolpit is a village in the English county of Suffolk, midway between the towns of Bury St.

Plan a trip to Woolpit→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Woolpit
106 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
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London → Woolpit
106 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
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Luton, Luton → Woolpit
97 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–14
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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 Woolpit, 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 Woolpit has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 58 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, 26 km.

52.224°, 0.889°

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.

How locals move

Getting around Woolpit the local way

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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