Control Tower Musuem, Martlesham Heath

#1 among attractions in Martlesham Heath

Top attraction, Specialty museum, Museum

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Facts and practical information

Royal Air Force Martlesham Heath or more simply RAF Martlesham Heath is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.5 miles southwest of Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. It was active between 1917 and 1963, and played an important role in the development of Airborne Interception radar. ()

Built: 1917 (107 years ago)Coordinates: 52°3'49"N, 1°15'55"E

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O.S. Grid ref: TM240455Martlesham Heath IP5 3UZ United Kingdom

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Martlesham Heath

Day trips

Control Tower Musuem – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Foxhall Stadium, Ipswich Gymnastics Centre, Woodbridge Tide Mill, Sutton Hoo Helmet.

1.8 miW
Sport venue, Sport, Arenas and stadiums
Foxhall Stadium, Ipswich
47 min walk • Foxhall Stadium is a Stock car and speedway stadium located in Foxhall near Ipswich. The Stadium is run by Spedeworth Motorsports stock car promoters. The stadium opened in 1951 and has been in continuous operation since.
3.9 miSW
Sport venue, Sport
Ipswich Gymnastics Centre, Ipswich
101 min walk • Ipswich Gymnastics Centre in Ipswich is one of only three fully London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games accredited gymnastics facilities in the United Kingdom and was used for training sessions in the run up to the 2004 Olympic Games by the Romanian gymnastics team.
3 miNE
Museum, Historical place
Woodbridge Tide Mill, Woodbridge
77 min walk • Woodbridge Tide Mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England is a rare example of a tide mill whose water wheel still turns and is capable of grinding a wholemeal flour. The mill is a Grade I listed building. It is a three-storey building constructed from wood; externally it is clad in white Suffolk boarding and has a Gambrel roof.
3.9 miNE
Monuments and statues
Sutton Hoo Helmet, Woodbridge
100 min walk • Sutton Hoo Helmet is a 2002 sculpture by the English artist Rick Kirby. A representation of the Anglo-Saxon helmet by the same name found in the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, it was commissioned by the National Trust to suspend outside an exhibition hall at the Sutton Hoo visitor centre.
2.3 miW
Park
Sandlings, Ipswich
58 min walk • Sandlings is a 5.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Rushmere St Andrew, on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk. It is owned by East Suffolk council, and managed by the council together with Rushmere St Andrew Parish Council and the Greenways Countryside Project.
3.9 miW
Church
St Mary, Ipswich
99 min walk • St Mary's, often called St Mary Woodbridge Road, is a Catholic church in Ipswich which has the largest congregation in the town and the second largest congregation in Suffolk.
2.4 miW
Park
Rushmere Common, Ipswich
62 min walk • Rushmere Common is common land situated on the eastern outskirts of Ipswich mainly within the parish of Rushmere St. Andrew, Suffolk, England. It is predominately heathland, gorse and woodland, and hosts a golf course.
3.1 miNE
Church
Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Woodbridge
80 min walk • The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Roman Catholic church in St John's Street in Woodbridge, Suffolk. It is part of the Catholic Diocese of East Anglia. It forms a joint parish with Framlingham. It was built in 1850. It was originally a YMCA but in 1929 it was converted into a Catholic church.
3.8 miW
Museum, Specialty museum, History museum
Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter, Ipswich
98 min walk • The Clifford Road Air Raid Shelter, located under the playground of Clifford Road Primary School in Ipswich was built during the first months of World War II. It was an unusually solid construction, capable of holding several hundred people. After the war, it was sealed up and largely forgotten.
3.3 miSW
Museum, Specialty museum
Ipswich Transport Museum, Ipswich
85 min walk • The Ipswich Transport Museum is a museum in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, devoted principally to the history of transport and engineering objects made or used in its local area.
3 miNE
52°5'26"N • 1°19'15"E
Woodbridge Railway Station, Woodbridge
77 min walk • Museum, Shopping, Art gallery