Hadleigh

Hadleigh is a market town of 8300 people (2011) on the River Brett in Suffolk, England. It has a 15th-century timber-framed Guildhall and many fine examples of timber and brick listed buildings, some with highly detailed 17th-century plasterwork or "pargeting". Most of these buildings can be found in the High Street, Angel Street, Benton Street and the immediately surrounding area.

Understand
Hadleigh was a wool town, and like Lavenham, Long Melford and Kersey, it was also a cloth making town. It has 246 listed buildings.

Get in
Hadleigh is on the B1070 (from the A12 north of Colchester) and was on the A1071 (in between Sudbury and Ipswich), though it's now been bypassed. Hadleigh is on the Regional Cycle Route 48.

By bus
Beestons 91 buses run between Ipswich and Sudbury.

By rail
Hadleigh no longer has a railway station; the nearest are in Ipswich, Sudbury and Manningtree.

Get around
The town is small enough to see on foot.

Connect
As of Sep 2022, Hadleigh and the highway from Ipswich have 5G from EE, but no signal from other UK carriers.

Go next

 * 5 miles southeast to East Bergholt
 * 10 miles east to Ipswich
 * 12 miles west to Sudbury
 * 10 miles northwest to Lavenham