Port of Felixstowe

#2661 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, is the United Kingdom's busiest container port, dealing with 48% of Britain's containerised trade. In 2017, it was ranked as 43rd busiest container port in the world and 8th in Europe, with a handled traffic of 3.85 million twenty-foot equivalent units. ()

Alternative names: Opened: 1875 (149 years ago)Coordinates: 51°57'33"N, 1°17'53"E

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Port of Felixstowe – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: High Lighthouse, Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich Redoubt, Trimley Marshes.

1.1 miS
Lighthouse
High Lighthouse, Harwich
29 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.
1 miSW
Nightlife, Concerts and shows, Cinema
Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich
25 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.
1.3 miS
Specialty museum, Museum, Military museum
Harwich Redoubt, Harwich
32 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.
1.1 miNW
Park
Trimley Marshes, Felixstowe
29 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.
0.9 miSW
51°56'54"N • 1°17'11"E
LV18 Lightvessel, Harwich
24 min walk • Ship, History museum, Museum
1.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Bath Side Battery, Harwich
30 min walk • Bath Side Battery was built in 1811 to cover the anchorage of the port of Harwich, Essex, England as part of the same complex as the Redoubt, armed with 3 x 24 pdr cannon.