Leiston Common

Leiston Common is a neighborhood in Leiston, Suffolk Coastal District, England. Leiston Common is situated nearby to the hamlet Sizewell, as well as near the neighborhood Nightingale Meadows.

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: Chris Allen, 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.

Leiston Library

Library

Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sizewell and Aldringham.

Sizewell

Hamlet

Photo: John Goldsmith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sizewell is an English fishing hamlet in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It belongs to the civil parish of Leiston and lies on the North Sea coast just north of the larger holiday village of Thorpeness, between the coastal towns of Aldeburgh and Southwold.

Aldringham

Village

Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aldringham is a village in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is the namesake of the Aldringham cum Thorpe civil parish that it is a part of. Aldringham is situated 1½ miles southwest of Leiston Common.

Eastbridge

Hamlet

Eastbridge is a village in the English county of Suffolk. It is located approximately 4 miles north of Leiston, 2 miles from the North Sea in the parish of Theberton, immediately south of the Minsmere RSPB reserve. Eastbridge is situated 1½ miles north of Leiston Common.

Leiston Common

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: Leiston, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.21505° or 52° 12′ 54″ north

Longitude

1.59717° or 1° 35′ 50″ east

Open location code

9F436H8W+2V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1726326282

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

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