Hawstead
Parish in West Suffolk, Suffolk, England
| Coordinates: | 52.197, 0.713 |
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| OS grid ref: | TL 85 58 |
| Dialling code: | 01284 (Bury-St-Edmunds) |
Hawstead is a small, rural village and civil parish in West Suffolk, Suffolk, England, lying a few miles south of Bury St Edmunds. It sits amid the rolling arable farmland typical of west Suffolk, with a compact settlement, a medieval church and only a handful of local services, so many residents travel to nearby towns for work and shopping.
The village has a distinct historic flavour as the former seat of the Drury family and the site of the old manor, with monuments in the church that reflect that past. Today its economy is largely agricultural, and the social life is quietly local - a tight-knit community with the sort of village events and neighbours you expect in a sparsely populated Suffolk parish.
Postcode districts covering Hawstead
Most populated places nearby
- Ipswich 21.7 miles
- Cambridge 24.5 miles
- Colchester 22.3 miles
- Braintree 22.6 miles
- Bury St. Edmunds 3.6 miles
- Haverhill 14.3 miles
- Thetford 15.2 miles
- Sudbury 11.3 miles
- Stowmarket 11.9 miles
- Newmarket 13.4 miles
- Ely 23.7 miles
- Saffron Walden 23.2 miles
Neighbouring places
- Nowton Parish 1.7 miles
- Sicklesmere Built-up area 1.7 miles
- Great Whelnetham Parish 1.9 miles
- Whepstead Parish 2 miles
- Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield Parish 2 miles
- Little Whelnetham Parish 2.2 miles
- Southgate Ward 2.4 miles
- Horringer Built-up area 2.5 miles
- Lawshall Built-up area 2.6 miles
- Rougham Ward 2.7 miles
- Westgate Ward 2.8 miles
- Brockley Parish 3.1 miles
Example postcodes in Hawstead
IP29 5NS, IP29 5NW, IP29 5NL, IP29 5BH, IP29 5PE, IP29 4TQ, IP29 5NN, IP29 5BF, IP29 5NP … See all
Transport links
- Stansted Airport 29.6 miles
- Norwich International Airport 40.9 miles
- Bury St Edmunds Railway Station 3.9 miles
- Thurston Railway Station 5.4 miles
Hotels near Hawstead Ad
- Angel Hotel 4 3.3 miles
- All Saints Hotel 4 5.5 miles
- Dragonfly Hotel Bury St Edmunds 3 3.1 miles
- Best Western Priory Hotel 3 4.4 miles
- The Bull Hotel Long Melford by Greene King Inns 3 8.1 miles
- The Crown Inn Hotel 8.2 miles
- The George and Dragon Inn 8.4 miles
Local points of interest
- Ickworth House Estate 3 miles
- West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Historic site 8.5 miles
- Shepherds Grove Forest 10.9 miles
- Elveden Hall Estate 13 miles
- Newmarket Racecourse Recreation 14.6 miles
- Brettenham Heath National Nature Preserve Nature reserve 17.6 miles
- Redgrave and Lopham Fen Nature reserve 17.7 miles
- East Anglian Railway Museum Museum 18.8 miles
- Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve Nature reserve 19.5 miles
- Bressingham Steam and Gardens Gardens 19.5 miles