Ixworth Thorpe is a Village in the county of Suffolk.

Retail in Ixworth Thorpe

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

The area around Ixworth Thorpe's best fens can be found at Lopham Fen.

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

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

Places near Ixworth Thorpe feature a number of interesting villages including Elveden.

Elveden Monument is one of Ixworth Thorpe's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Ixworth Thorpe.

Ixworth Thorpe History

There are some historic monuments around Ixworth Thorpe:

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