Long Shop Museum
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.Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Roger Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: richard Garrett & Sons museum
- Also known as: “The Long Shop Museum”
- Address: Main Street, Leiston, IP16 4ES
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include White Horse Hotel and Summerhill School.
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. Summerhill School is situated 1,600 feet northwest of Long Shop Museum.
Church of St Margaret, Leiston
Church
Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Margaret, Leiston is situated 1,700 feet west of Long Shop Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aldringham and Coldfair Green.
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.
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.
Long Shop Museum
- Categories: independent museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Leiston, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.20745° or 52° 12′ 27″ northLongitude
1.57535° or 1° 34′ 31″ eastOpen location code
9F436H4G+X4OpenStreetMap ID
way 131020700OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q6673237
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Highlights include Leiston Library and Friends Meeting House.
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