Flempton
Flempton is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is on the A1101 road 5 miles NW from Bury St Edmunds. Flempton takes its name from the Flemings who came from Flanders and settled the area in Anglo-Saxon times.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 155 residents
- Description: village in Suffolk, England, UK
- Also known as: “Flempton, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lackford Lakes and Church of St Lawrence.
Lackford Lakes
Nature reserve
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lackford Lakes is a 105.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north and east of Lackford in Suffolk. The SSSI is part of the 131-hectare Lackford Lakes nature reserve, which is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave
Church
Photo: John Sutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave is the former parish church of Hengrave, Suffolk. In 1589 this parish was consolidated with that of adjacent Flempton, and since then it has solely been used as a place of interment for the residents of Hengrave Hall, who have ensured the church is properly maintained.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Stow and Hengrave.
West Stow
Village
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West Stow is a small village and civil parish in West Suffolk, England. The village lies north of Bury St. Edmunds, south of Mildenhall and Thetford and west of the villages of Culford and Ingham in the area known as the Breckland.
Hengrave
Village
Photo: Philip Sheldrake, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hengrave is a small village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is to the North of the town of Bury St Edmunds along the A1101 road.
Lackford
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lackford is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles north-west of Bury St Edmunds on the A1101, in 2005 it had a population of 270.
Flempton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Flempton, St. Edmundsbury District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.29622° or 52° 17′ 46″ northLongitude
0.65677° or 0° 39′ 24″ eastPopulation
155Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
9F427MW4+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 288642353OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2649308Wikidata ID
Q1947707
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Flempton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Flempton”
- Chinese: “Flempton”
- Dutch: “Flempton”
- French: “Flempton”
- Irish: “Flempton”
- Ladin: “Flempton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Flempton”
- Northern Frisian: “Flempton”
- Persian: “فلمپتون”
- Polish: “Flempton”
- Swedish: “Flempton”
- Turkish: “Flempton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Flempton Pool.
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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 “Flempton”. Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.