Stowmarket
Stowmarket is a market town and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, on the A14 trunk road between Bury St Edmunds to the west and Ipswich to the southeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 21,000 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, England
- Also known as: “Stowmarket, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include John Peel Centre for Creative Arts and Church of St Peter and St Mary.
John Peel Centre for Creative Arts
Arts center
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John Peel Centre for Creative Arts is an arts center.
Church of St Peter and St Mary
Church
Photo: James Yardley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Peter and St Mary stands in the town of Stowmarket, Suffolk, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church dates from the 14th century and is a Grade I listed building.
Stowmarket railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stowmarket railway station is a stop on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the market town of Stowmarket, Suffolk. The station is 80 miles 9 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street; it is situated between Needham Market to the south and Diss to the north.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Combs Ford and Stowupland.
Combs Ford
Suburb
Photo: Andrew Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Combs Ford is a suburb of Stowmarket in Suffolk, England. It sits at the confluence between the rivers Gipping and Rattlesden. Combs Ford is where the procession of the Stowmarket Carnival changes as it swings between The Magpie and The Gladstone public houses and proceeds towards Ipswich Street.
Stowupland
Village
Photo: Keith Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stowupland is a civil parish 1 mile east of Stowmarket, Suffolk, England. Stowupland means "a place occupied on higher ground than Stowmarket", with the Saxons calling the village Ultuna due to the far higher presence of owls in the woods that previously stood on the site of Holy Trinity Church. Stowupland High School is found in the village.
Combs
Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Combs is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is also located directly to the south of Stowmarket, with a half-mile of glacial valley known locally as 'Slough'.
Stowmarket
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Stowmarket, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.18782° or 52° 11′ 16″ northLongitude
0.99734° or 0° 59′ 50″ eastPopulation
21,000Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB STWOpen location code
9F425XQW+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 21455102OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Stowmarket” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Stowmarket”
- Basque: “Stowmarket”
- Bengali: “স্টোমার্কেট”
- Cebuano: “Stowmarket”
- Chinese: “Stowmarket”
- Chinese: “斯托馬基特”
- Chinese: “斯托马基特”
- Dutch: “Stowmarket”
- French: “Stowmarket”
- German: “Stowmarket”
- Gujarati: “સ્ટોમાર્કટ”
- Irish: “Stowmarket”
- Italian: “Stowmarket”
- Japanese: “ストウマーケット”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಟೊಮಾರ್ಕೆಟ್”
- Korean: “스토우마켓”
- Ladin: “Stowmarket”
- Latvian: “Stovmārketa”
- Lithuanian: “Staumarketas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Stowmarket”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stowmarket”
- Persian: “استومارکت”
- Polish: “Stowmarket”
- Portuguese: “Stowmarket”
- Romanian: “Stowmarket”
- Russian: “Стаумаркет”
- Russian: “Стоумаркет”
- Slovenian: “Stowmarket”
- South Azerbaijani: “استومارکت”
- Spanish: “Stowmarket”
- Swedish: “Stowmarket”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டோவ்மார்க்கெட்”
- Telugu: “స్టౌ మార్కెట్”
- Turkish: “Stowmarket”
- Urdu: “ستوومارکیت”
- Volapük: “Stowmarket”
- Welsh: “Stowmarket”
- “Stowmarket”
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Notable Places Nearby
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