Eye

Eye is a market town and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of , about 4 miles south of , 17.5 miles north of and 23 miles south-west of .
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  • Type: Town with 1,720 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Suffolk, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Eye, Suffolk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eye Castle and Eye Town Hall.

Castle
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a motte and bailey medieval castle with a prominent Victorian addition in the town of Eye, . Built shortly after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the castle was sacked and largely destroyed in 1265.

Town hall
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is a municipal building in Broad Street in Eye, Suffolk, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Eye Town Council, is a Grade II* listed building.

Historic site
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was a Benedictine Priory dedicated to St Peter in the town of Eye in the English county of Suffolk. It was founded by Robert Malet c. 1080, and was originally an Alien Priory dependent on in Normandy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yaxley and Braiseworth.

Village
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is a small village just west of Eye in , England. The name means 'cuckoo-clearing'.

Hamlet
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is a village in , England. It has never reached any great size, and no longer has its own parish church. The medieval church was dismantled in the 1850s, parts being incorporated into the new church, consecrated in 1857 and designed by the Victorian "rogue" architect Edward Buckton Lamb, who also designed the controversial at nearby Eye.

Village
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is a village and former civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of . It lies on the A140 to road around 1 mile northwest of Eye and 2 miles southeast of near the border with .

Eye

Latitude
52.3226° or 52° 19′ 22″ north
Longitude
1.1464° or 1° 8′ 47″ east
Population
1,720
Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB EYE
Open location code
9F4384FW+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 203659243
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649789
Wiki­data ID
Q777509
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Eye” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Eye”
  • Basque: “Eye (Suffolk)”
  • Basque: “Eye”
  • Belarusian: “Ай”
  • Cebuano: “Eye”
  • Chinese: “Eye”
  • Chinese: “爱”
  • Chinese: “艾耶”
  • Chinese: “艾鎮 (薩福克郡)”
  • Chinese: “艾鎮”
  • Chinese: “艾镇 (萨福克郡)”
  • Chinese: “艾镇”
  • Dutch: “Eye”
  • French: “Eye”
  • German: “Eye”
  • Hebrew: “איי”
  • Irish: “Eye, Suffolk”
  • Irish: “Eye”
  • Italian: “Eye”
  • Japanese: “アイ (サッフォーク”
  • Japanese: “アイ (サフォーク)”
  • Ladin: “Eye (Suffolk)”
  • Ladin: “Eye”
  • Latin: “Haia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Eye (Suffolk)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eye i Suffolk”
  • Persian: “ای، سافک”
  • Polish: “Eye”
  • Romanian: “Eye, Suffolk”
  • Russian: “Ай”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ای، سافک”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Eye, Suffolk”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Eye”
  • Spanish: “Eye”
  • Swedish: “Eye, Suffolk”
  • Swedish: “Eye”
  • Turkish: “Eye, Suffolk”
  • Ukrainian: “Ай”
  • Welsh: “Eye, Suffolk”
  • “Eye”

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