English Heritage sites near Cockfield Parish
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY
7 miles from Cockfield Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
7 miles from Cockfield Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
MOULTON PACKHORSE BRIDGE
15 miles from Cockfield Parish
A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
18 miles from Cockfield Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
THETFORD, CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
18 miles from Cockfield Parish
The only surviving remains in England of a priory of Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, who aided pilgrims to Christ's tomb: the ruined nave of their 14th-century church, later used as a barn.
THETFORD PRIORY
18 miles from Cockfield Parish
The extensive remains of one of the most important East Anglian monasteries, the Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford and the burial place of the earls and dukes of Norfolk for 400 years.
Churches in Cockfield Parish
Cockfield, St Peter
Church Lane
Cockfield
Bury St Edmunds
01284 828599
http://www.cockfieldbenefice.com
The mediaeval church of St. Peter stands on a slight rise at the end of a lane in which the village hall (with car park for all) and CEVC Primary School are also to be found. It is a large church and, with its 72ft tower, stands proudly at what is just about the geographical centre of this scattered village.
Pubs in Cockfield Parish
Horseshoes Inn
Stow's Hill (A1141), Cockfield, IP30 0JB
(01284) 828177
thehorseshoes-inn.co.uk