Saxmundham
Saxmundham is in East Anglia. It's a charming working market town catering more for local residents than the tourism industry, but is a good base for exploring the Suffolk coast and inland rural towns and villages.Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 4,230 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Saxmundham, Suffolk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saxmundham railway station and Church of St John Baptist.
Saxmundham railway station
Railway station
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Saxmundham railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the town of Saxmundham, Suffolk. Situated between Wickham Market and Darsham, it is 22 miles 29 chains down the line from Ipswich, and 91 miles 11 chains from London Liverpool Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benhall and Sternfield.
Benhall
Hamlet
Benhall is a civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. Lying to the south of Saxmundham, its population at the 2021 census was 569.
Sternfield
Village
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sternfield is a village in Suffolk, England. It is located 1 mile south of Saxmundham, its post town. The village is very small and irregularly built, and is wholly agricultural.
Carlton
Village
Photo: Malcolm Bell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carlton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kelsale cum Carlton, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.
Saxmundham
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.2143° or 52° 12′ 51″ northLongitude
1.4918° or 1° 29′ 31″ eastPopulation
4,230Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SXMOpen location code
9F436F7R+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 265518435OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Saxmundham” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساكسموندهام”
- Asturian: “Saxmundham”
- Basque: “Saxmundham”
- Cebuano: “Saxmundham”
- Chinese: “Saxmundham”
- Chinese: “薩克斯曼德姆”
- Dutch: “Saxmundham”
- French: “Saxmundham”
- German: “Saxmundham”
- Hebrew: “סקסמנדהם”
- Irish: “Saxmundham”
- Italian: “Saxmundham”
- Japanese: “サクスマンダム”
- Japanese: “サックスマンダム”
- Ladin: “Saxmundham”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saxmundham”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saxmundham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saxmundham”
- Norwegian: “Saxmundham”
- Persian: “ساکسماندهام”
- Polish: “Saxmundham”
- Romanian: “Saxmundham”
- Russian: “Саксмандем”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساکسماندهام”
- Spanish: “Saxmundham”
- Swedish: “Saxmundham”
- Turkish: “Saxmundham”
- Volapük: “Saxmundham”
- Welsh: “Saxmundham”
- “Saxmundham”
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