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.

There are a number of fens near to Honington including Lopham Fen.

Lopham Fen is a great place to visit close to Honington if you like nature reserves.

Honington is near some unmissable historic buildings like Ickworth,

The area around Honington's best villages can be found at Elveden.

Honington is near some unmissable historic monuments like Elveden Monument,

Honington History

There are some historic monuments around Honington:

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