Melton Woods

Melton Woods is a forest in Melton, Suffolk Coastal District, England. Melton Woods is situated nearby to the suburb Mill Hills, as well as near the locality Castle Street Playground.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Woodbridge railway station and Woodbridge Tide Mill.

Woodbridge railway station

Railway station

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Woodbridge railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the town of Woodbridge, Suffolk. It is 10 miles 19 chains down the line from Ipswich and 79 miles measured from London Liverpool Street; it is situated between Westerfield and Melton.

Woodbridge Tide Mill

Museum

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Woodbridge Tide Mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England is a rare example of a tide mill whose water wheel still turns and is capable of grinding a wholemeal flour.

Melton railway station

Railway station

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Melton railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the village of Melton, Suffolk. It is 11 miles 49 chains down the line from Ipswich and 80 miles 28 chains measured from London Liverpool Street; it is situated between Woodbridge and Wickham Market.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woodbridge and Sutton Hoo.

Woodbridge

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Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk. It is about 8 miles from the coast, on the River Deben and is the location of medieval burial sites and ancient archaeological finds.

Sutton Hoo

Locality

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Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have excavated the site since the discovery of a previously undisturbed ship burial containing a wealth of artifacts in 1938.

Martlesham

Village

Photo: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Martlesham is a village in Suffolk, England about two miles south-west of Woodbridge and 6 miles east of Ipswich. It is often referred to as "old Martlesham" by locals in order to distinguish this old village from the much more recent Martlesham Heath development to the south, although both form a single administrative parish.

Melton Woods

Type: Forest
Location: Melton, Suffolk Coastal District, Suffolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.102° or 52° 6′ 7″ north

Longitude

1.3211° or 1° 19′ 16″ east

Open location code

9F43482C+QF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23338876

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Mill Hills and Castle Street Playground.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Melton Playing Fields Playground and Melton Recreation Ground.

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