Sapiston is a Village in the county of Suffolk.

Retail in Sapiston

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

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

Places near Sapiston feature a number of interesting nature reserves including Lopham Fen.

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

Don't miss Elveden's villages if visiting the area around Sapiston.

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

Sapiston History

There are some historic monuments around Sapiston:

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