7 miles from Long Melford Parish

A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.

11 miles from Long Melford Parish

The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.

15 miles from Long Melford Parish

The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.

15 miles from Long Melford Parish

A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.

16 miles from Long Melford Parish

This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.

16 miles from Long Melford Parish

The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.