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.

Fens to visit near Ixworth Thorpe include Lopham Fen.

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Ixworth Thorpe like Lopham Fen.

Ixworth Thorpe is near some unmissable historic buildings like Ickworth,

There are a several good villages in the area around Ixworth Thorpe like Elveden.

The area close to Ixworth Thorpe boasts some of the best historic monuments including Elveden Monument.

Ixworth Thorpe History

There are some historic monuments around Ixworth Thorpe:

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