Thurston
Thurston is a village and a parish in Suffolk situated about 4 miles east of Bury St Edmunds and 10 miles west of Stowmarket. In mid-2005, Thurston's estimated population was 3,260, making it one of the larger communities in the area, falling slightly to 3,232 at the 2011 Census. Thurston railway station opened in 1846 and is still operating today.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,950 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Thurston, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thurston railway station and Thurston Community College.
Thurston railway station
Railway station
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Thurston railway station serves the village of Thurston in Suffolk, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Greater Anglia. It is served primarily by local services between Ipswich and Cambridge.
Thurston Community College
School
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Thurston Community College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Thurston, Suffolk, England. As of 2018, it has 1,733 students aged 11–18 drawn from the local village and surrounding rural communities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pakenham and Beyton.
Pakenham
Village
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Pakenham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Its name can be linked to Anglo-Saxon roots, Pacca being the founder of a settlement on the hill surrounding Pakenham church.
Beyton
Village
Beyton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. The village is around 8 miles east of Bury St Edmunds, 2 miles south-east of Thurston and 8 miles north-west of Stowmarket. Beyton is situated 1½ miles southeast of Thurston.
Rougham
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rougham is a village and former civil parish 19 miles north west of Ipswich, now in the parish of Rushbrooke with Rougham, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Rougham is situated 2 miles south of Thurston.
Thurston
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Thurston, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.25301° or 52° 15′ 11″ northLongitude
0.81349° or 0° 48′ 49″ eastPopulation
2,950Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB THKOpen location code
9F427R37+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 288178776OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Thurston” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thurston (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Thurston”
- Chinese: “Thurston”
- Dutch: “Thurston”
- French: “Thurston”
- Irish: “Thurston”
- Ladin: “Thurston”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thurston (Suffolk)”
- Polish: “Thurston”
- Spanish: “Thurston”
- Swedish: “Thurston (parish)”
- Swedish: “Thurston”
- Turkish: “Thurston, Suffolk”
- “Thurston”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thurston”. Photo: Donama, CC BY-SA 3.0.