Leiston
Leiston is a town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is close to Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, 21 miles north-east of Ipswich and 90 miles north-east of London. The town had a population of 5,508 at the 2011 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,500 residents
- Description: town in eastern Suffolk, England
- Also known as: “Leiston-cum-Sizewell” and “Leiston, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Summerhill School and Long Shop Museum.
Summerhill School
School
Photo: Axel Kühn, Public domain.
Summerhill School is an independent day and boarding school in Leiston, Suffolk, England. It was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around.
Long Shop Museum
Museum
Photo: Roger Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Long Shop Museum is an industrial heritage museum in the town of Leiston in the English county of Suffolk. The museum features the history of Richard Garrett & Sons who manufactured a wide range of industrial and agricultural machinery, steam engines, and electric vehicles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Knodishall and Aldringham.
Knodishall
Village
Photo: John Goldsmith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knodishall, a village in Suffolk, England, lies 3.5 miles south-east of Saxmundham, 1 mile south-west of Leiston, and 3 miles from the coast, in the Blything Hundred.
Aldringham
Village
Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aldringham is a village in the Blything Hundred of Suffolk, England. The village is located 1 mile south of Leiston and 3 miles northwest of Aldeburgh close to the North Sea coast.
Theberton
Hamlet
Theberton is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is located 4 miles north-east of Saxmundham, and 3 miles miles north of Leiston, its post town. In 2011 the parish had a population of 279. Theberton is situated 2 miles north of Leiston.
Leiston
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.2065° or 52° 12′ 23″ northLongitude
1.5764° or 1° 34′ 35″ eastPopulation
6,500Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LENOpen location code
9F436H4G+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 21542372OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Leiston” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Leiston”
- Basque: “Leiston”
- Cebuano: “Leiston”
- Chinese: “Leiston”
- Chinese: “莱斯顿”
- Chinese: “萊斯頓”
- Dutch: “Leiston”
- French: “Leiston”
- German: “Leiston”
- Hungarian: “Leiston”
- Irish: “Leiston”
- Italian: “Leiston”
- Japanese: “レイストン”
- Ladin: “Leiston”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Leiston”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leiston”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leiston”
- Persian: “لیستون”
- Polish: “Leiston”
- Romanian: “Leiston”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیستون”
- Spanish: “Leiston”
- Swedish: “Leiston”
- Turkish: “Leiston”
- Volapük: “Leiston”
- Welsh: “Leiston”
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