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.

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

There are a number of nature reserves near to Ixworth Thorpe including Lopham Fen.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Ixworth Thorpe like Ickworth.

Villages to visit near Ixworth Thorpe include Elveden.

Historic Monuments to visit near Ixworth Thorpe include Elveden Monument.

Ixworth Thorpe History

There are some historic monuments around Ixworth Thorpe:

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