Hawstead is a Village in the county of Suffolk.

Retail in Hawstead

There are great places to visit near Hawstead including some great fens, nature reserves, historic buildings, villages and historic monuments.

Lopham Fen is a great place to visit close to Hawstead if you like fens.

The area close to Hawstead boasts some of the best nature reserves including Lopham Fen.

Hawstead is near some unmissable historic buildings like Ickworth,

The area close to Hawstead boasts some of the best villages including Elveden.

Elveden Monument is a great place to visit close to Hawstead if you like historic monuments.

Hawstead History

There are some historic monuments around Hawstead:

• Moated site 200yds (180m) S of Oldhall Green
• Bury St Edmund's Abbey: including the monks' cemetery and outer precinct and vineyard walls
• Moated site immediately west of Bradfield Hall
• Settlement site W of Hengrave mill
• Remains of circular chapel E of church
• Moated site at Doveden Hall
• Roman building SW of Lake Farm
• Site of Hawstead Place and associated fishponds
• The Chapel of the Charnel
• Babwell Friary (remains of)
• Two moated sites adjoining St Andrew's Church, with associated remains of medieval settlement at Pound Green
• Site of Little Saxham Hall
• St Saviour's Hospital
• Market cross
• Pumphouse in centre of village
• Moated site immediately south east of New House Farm
• Bowl barrow in Dixon's Covert
• Iron gas-holder, Lavenham gasworks
• Churchyard cross in St Andrew's churchyard, Pound Green
• Moated site, formerly the site of Rushbrooke Hall, 400m south west of Poplar Meadow
• East Low Hill tumulus
• Round barrows, Risby Poor's Heath East
• Sites NW and SE of Fornham All Saints