Bacton
Bacton is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, about 8 kilometres north of Stowmarket. The village appeared as 'Bachetuna' in the Domesday Book and the area appears to have been settled at least since Roman times, with many interesting finds on the locally organised annual metal-detecting days.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,320 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Suffolk, UK
- Also known as: “Bacton, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary and The Bull Inn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wyverstone and Cotton.
Wyverstone
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wyverstone is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around five miles north of Stowmarket, in 2005 its population was 370.
Cotton
Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cotton is a small village and civil parish located in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Cotton lies a few miles to the east of the Great Eastern Main Line and to the west of the A140.
Westhorpe
Village
Westhorpe is a linear village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The village is 13 miles from the town of Bury St. Edmunds, 7 miles from Stowmarket, and 1 mile from the villages of Wyverstone and Finningham.
Bacton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Bacton, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.26326° or 52° 15′ 48″ northLongitude
1.00802° or 1° 0′ 29″ eastPopulation
1,320Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
9F437275+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 288271733OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2656668Wikidata ID
Q2578348
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Bacton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bacton (Suffolk)”
- Basque: “Bacton”
- Cebuano: “Bacton (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Suffolk)”
- Cebuano: “Bacton”
- Chinese: “Bacton”
- Dutch: “Bacton”
- French: “Bacton”
- Irish: “Bacton”
- Ladin: “Bacton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bacton (Suffolk)”
- Polish: “Bacton”
- Slovenian: “Bacton”
- Spanish: “Bacton (Suffolk)”
- Spanish: “Bacton”
- Swedish: “Bacton (parish i Storbritannien, Suffolk)”
- Swedish: “Bacton”
- Turkish: “Bacton, Suffolk”
- Welsh: “Bacton, Suffolk”
- “Bacton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bacton Primary School and Bacton Village Hall.
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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 “Bacton”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.