English Heritage sites near Woolpit Parish
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY
8 miles from Woolpit Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
11 miles from Woolpit Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
THETFORD, CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
15 miles from Woolpit Parish
The only surviving remains in England of a priory of Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, who aided pilgrims to Christ's tomb: the ruined nave of their 14th-century church, later used as a barn.
THETFORD PRIORY
15 miles from Woolpit Parish
The extensive remains of one of the most important East Anglian monasteries, the Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford and the burial place of the earls and dukes of Norfolk for 400 years.
THETFORD WARREN LODGE
16 miles from Woolpit Parish
Thetford Warren Lodge was probably built c.1400 by the Prior of Thetford; this defensible lodge protected gamekeepers and hunting parties against armed poachers.
SAXTEAD GREEN POST MILL
17 miles from Woolpit Parish
Saxtead Green Post Mill is a corn mill, whose whole body revolves on its base and was one of many built in Suffolk from the late 13th century.
Churches in Woolpit Parish
Woolpit, The Blessed Virgin Mary
The Street
Woolpit
Bury St Edmunds
01359 242244
St. Mary's Church, Woolpit, is one of the most beautiful churches of Suffolk - a county of beautiful churches. Originally on the pilgrimage route to the shrine of St. Edmund, grateful pilgrims left gifts following miracles which occurred at a shrine to Our Lady, attached to the church. This money was used to provide St. Mary's with a particularly fine angel ceiling and wonderfully carved pews with animal poppy heads. There are many lovely features in the church which make it worth exploring in depth.
It is also a very friendly church with a regular pattern of worship, both on Sundays and through the week. It is wheelchair accessible, has a good hearing loop and a disabled accessible toilet.
Pubs in Woolpit Parish
Bull
The St, Woolpit, IP30 9SA
(01359) 240393
bullinnwoolpit.co.uk/
Plough
Distinctive small single bar pub with no cellar - beers were sold from a gravity stillage until they stopped selling real ale. Now residential. A report in the Bury & Norwich Post** on Aug-20 in 1828 when Heston Fenton was the landlord stat...
Swan
Parts of the pub date from the 15th cent. with a carriage arch providing a reminder of earlier (coaching) times. Further extensions & renovations were carried out in 1826 & the present brick front (Woolpit red bricks) was added about then....