Lakenheath
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Lakenheath is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It has a population of 4,691 according to the 2011 Census, and is situated close to the county boundaries of both Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, and at the meeting point of The Fens and the Breckland natural environments.
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- Locality
- West Suffolk
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 4,369
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Lakenheath
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary the Virgin Lakenheath.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- UK place.static_image_2_name
- Lakenheath Hotel 2.JPG
- UK place.static_image_2_caption
- Goward house
- UK place.population
- 4,691
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.post_town
- Brandon
- UK place.postcode_area
- IP
- UK place.postcode_district
- IP27
- UK place.dial_code
- 01842
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Suffolk
- UK place.london_distance
- 80.72 from High Street to Parliament Square
- UK place.civil_parish
- Lakenheath
- UK place.shire_district
- West Suffolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Suffolk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 4691
- Image
- Lakenheath Hotel 2.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01842
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- Commons category
- Lakenheath
- OS grid reference
- TL715825
- postal code
- IP27
- P8168
- Echo
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Transport
- RAF Lakenheath
- Prehistory and archaeology
- History
- Climate
- References
- External links
Lakenheath is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It has a population of 4,691 according to the 2011 Census, and is situated close to the county boundaries of both Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, and at the meeting point of The Fens and the Breckland natural environments.
Lakenheath is host to the largest United States Air Force base in the United Kingdom, RAF Lakenheath.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lakenheath” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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