About Harkstead

Harkstead is a Suffolk village on the Shotley Peninsula, reached via the B1080 from the A137 near Ipswich. The settlement overlooks the River Stour estuary with views to Essex, surrounded by rolling countryside and connected by narrow lanes to Holbrook and Woolverstone. St. Mary's Church houses remarkable 13th-century wall paintings of St. Edmund, uncovered during 1960s restoration work.

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Harkstead is in England, at 51.969, 1.183 - about 13 km east of Bentley.

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