Lowestoft
Lowestoft is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. As the most easterly UK settlement, it is 38 miles north-east of Ipswich and 22 miles south-east of Norwich, and the main town in its district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 64,400 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in East Suffolk, England
- Also known as: “Lowestoft (parish)” and “Lowestoft, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lowestoft railway station and Ness Point.
Lowestoft railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lowestoft railway station serves the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is the eastern terminus of the East Suffolk Line from Ipswich and is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines from Norwich.
Ness Point
Scenic viewpoint
Ness Point, also known as Lowestoft Ness, is the most easterly point of England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom and the British Isles. It is located in Lowestoft in the East Suffolk district of the county of Suffolk.
Lowestoft Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Adrian S Pye, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lowestoft Lighthouse is a lighthouse operated by Trinity House located to the north of the centre of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. It stands on the North Sea coast close to Ness Point, the most easterly point in the United Kingdom.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkley and Oulton.
Kirkley
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkley is an area of the town of Lowestoft in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located south of the centre of Lowestoft and the town's harbour and Lake Lothing.
Oulton
Village
Oulton is a civil parish on the western edge of the town of Lowestoft in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is in the East Suffolk district.
Pakefield
Suburb
Photo: Stephengosling, CC0.
Pakefield is a suburb of the town of Lowestoft, in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is located around 2 miles south of the centre of the town.
Lowestoft
- Categories: civil parish, unparished area, and locality
- Location: Waveney District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.4766° or 52° 28′ 36″ northLongitude
1.7538° or 1° 45′ 14″ eastPopulation
64,400Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LOWOpen location code
9F43FQG3+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 2503509354OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Lowestoft” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լոուստոֆտ”
- Asturian: “Lowestoft”
- Basque: “Lowestoft”
- Bulgarian: “Лоустофт”
- Catalan: “Lowestoft”
- Cebuano: “Lowestoft”
- Chinese: “洛斯托夫特”
- Czech: “Lowestoft”
- Danish: “Lowestoft”
- Dutch: “Lowestoft”
- Esperanto: “Lowestoft”
- Finnish: “Lowestoft”
- French: “Lowestoft”
- Georgian: “ლოუსტოფტი”
- German: “Lowestoft”
- Greek: “Λόουεστοφτ”
- Hebrew: “לואוסטופט”
- Irish: “Lowestoft”
- Italian: “Lowestoft”
- Japanese: “ローウェストフト”
- Japanese: “ローストフト”
- Japanese: “ロウストフト”
- Korean: “로스토프트”
- Ladin: “Lowestoft”
- Latvian: “Loustofta”
- Lithuanian: “Loustoftas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lowestoft”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lowestoft”
- Norwegian: “Lowestoft”
- Persian: “لوئستافت”
- Polish: “Lowestoft”
- Portuguese: “Lowestoft”
- Romanian: “Lowestoft”
- Russian: “Ловестофт”
- Russian: “Лоустофт”
- Serbian: “Loustoft”
- Serbian: “Lowestoft”
- Serbian: “Лоустофт”
- Slovak: “Lowestoft”
- Slovenian: “Lowestoft”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوئستافت”
- Spanish: “Lowestoft”
- Swedish: “Lowestoft”
- Tatar: “Лоустофт”
- Turkish: “Lowestoft”
- Ukrainian: “Лоустофт”
- Urdu: “لویسٹافٹ”
- Vietnamese: “Lowestoft”
- Volapük: “Lowestoft”
- Welsh: “Lowestoft”
- “Lowestoft”
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