Honington is a Village in the county of Suffolk.

Retail in Honington

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

Don't miss Lopham Fen's fens if visiting the area around Honington.

Don't miss Lopham Fen's nature reserves if visiting the area around Honington.

Ickworth is one of Honington's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Honington.

Places near Honington feature a number of interesting villages including Elveden.

Honington is near some unmissable historic monuments like Elveden Monument,

Honington History

There are some historic monuments around Honington:

• Site of Saxon town: car park to N of Anchor Hotel
• Bowl barrow on Rushford Heath 180m west of Peddar's Way
• Site of Saxon town: Nuns' Bridges open space
• Priory of the Canons of the Holy Sepulchre and part of Saxon town
• Site of Saxon town: primary school grounds, Hilary Road
• Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 850m and 750m north east of Neville House Farm
• Bell barrow 420m north west of Park Farm
• Site of Saxon town: plot on E side of Mill Lane 200ft (60m) N of Nunthorpe House
• Roman villa at Stanton Clair
• An Iron Age religious site and associated enclosures on Gallows Hill, Thetford, immediately to the north of Fison Way industrial estate
• Site of Saxon town including site of St John's churchyard on playing fields
• Roman settlement S of Ixworth
• Site of Saxon town: Bury Road allotments
• Bowl barrow in the garden of The Old Mill
• The Chapel of the Charnel
• Babwell Friary (remains of)
• Moated site in Round Grove
• Bowl barrow 720m north east of East Farm
• Thetford Warren Lodge
• Bowl barrow on Hut Hill, Knettishall Heath
• Rushford Bridge
• Tumuli on West Harling Heath
• Length of Roman road NE of Barningham Park
• Bowl barrow in Brickkiln Covert, Knettishall Heath
• Two Pickett-Hamilton forts at Honington airfield, 750m and 1.25km south west of Broomhill Cottages
• Thetford Cluniac priory
• St Saviour's Hospital
• Ringwork in Burnthall Plantation
• Bowl barrow known as Traveller's Hill tumulus
• Blackfriars
• Red Castle medieval ringwork, church and Saxon settlement remains
• Atomic bomb store on Thetford Heath
• Melford Bridge
• Rushford Bridge
• Stanton Upthorpe windmill
• Castle Hill: motte and bailey castle, Iron Age earthwork enclosure and site of Augustinian friary
• Area of Saxon town N of Red Castle
• Bank and ditch NE of London Road
• Tutt Hill barrow, near Thetford
• Remains of medieval church and village at Thorpe
• Bury St Edmund's Abbey: including the monks' cemetery and outer precinct and vineyard walls
• Two bowl barrows on Troston Heath, one known as Black Hill
• Bowl barrow and moot known as Troston Mount
• Ixworth Roman villa
• Site of town ditch: Icknield Way allotments
• Site of St Ethelred's Church and adjoining area to south
• 'Seven Hills' (tumuli), Rushford