Ramsey Windmill
#3078 among destinations in the United Kingdom
Facts and practical information
Ramsey Windmill is a grade II* listed post mill at Ramsey, Essex, England which has been restored. ()
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Ramsey Windmill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: High Lighthouse, Electric Palace Cinema, Landguard Fort, Beacon Hill Battery.
- 3.5 miELighthouse
High Lighthouse, Harwich
89 min walk • Harwich High and Low Lighthouses are a pair of early 19th-century towers in Harwich, Essex, which were built as leading lights to help guide vessels into the harbour. They replaced an earlier pair of lights established in the seventeenth century when Harwich was a key operational base for the Royal Navy.
- 3.5 miENightlife, Concerts and shows, Cinema
Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich
90 min walk • The Electric Palace cinema, Harwich, is one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its silent screen, original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact. It was designed by the architect Harold Ridley Hooper of Ipswich, Suffolk and opened on 29 November 1911.
- 4.7 miESpecialty museum, View point, Museum
Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
120 min walk • Landguard Fort is a fort at the mouth of the River Orwell outside Felixstowe, Suffolk, designed to guard the mouth of the river. It is now open to the public.
- 3.4 miEForts and castles
Beacon Hill Battery, Harwich
86 min walk • Beacon Hill Battery is a late-19th and 20th century coastal fortification that was built to defend the port of Harwich, Essex. It is a scheduled ancient monument.
- 3.4 miESpecialty museum, Museum, Military museum
Harwich Redoubt, Harwich
88 min walk • Harwich Redoubt is a circular fort built in 1808 to defend the port of Harwich, Essex from Napoleonic invasion. The Harwich Society opens it to the public.
- 4.7 miEPark
Landguard Common
121 min walk • Landguard Common is a 30.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Felixstowe in Suffolk. An area of 16.3 hectares at the southern end is also a Local Nature Reserve.
- 3.1 miNEForest
Ganges Wood, Harwich
80 min walk • Ganges Wood is a woodland in Suffolk, England, near the village of Shotley Gate. It covers a total area of 2.21 hectares. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.
- 2.7 miWCemetery
Oakfield Wood
69 min walk • Oakfield Wood is a 2.8 hectare nature reserve west of Wrabness in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust. This is former farmland which is being converted into a "green burial ground", overlooking the Stour Estuary.
- 4.5 miNEPark
Trimley Marshes, Felixstowe
114 min walk • Trimley Marshes is a 77 hectare nature reserve west of Trimley St Mary, on the outskirts of Felixstowe in Suffolk. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
- 0.8 miNWPark
Copperas Wood
22 min walk • Copperas Wood is a 13.8 hectare nature reserve between Ramsey and Wrabness in Essex. It is owned and managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust, and is part of the Stour and Copperas Woods, Ramsey Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- 4.2 miNEHarbor
Port of Felixstowe
109 min walk • The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, is the United Kingdom's busiest container port, dealing with 48% of Britain's containerised trade.