UNWIND AND PLAY
THINGS TO DO AT BUTLEY ABBEY WILDS
We think adults have too little fun. At Butley Abbey Wilds there plenty to do from croquet to tennis, to board games and mapped circular walks from your front door. Our brilliant team can arrange yoga, art and cooking classes or more adventurous activities for your group, like axe-throwing, archery and scavenger hunts in our woodland.
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Walks
Maps and routes on site
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Tennis
all-weather court on site
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River and sea swimming
10 mins away
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Bikes and cycling
soon available on site
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Guided Nature Walks
on site
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Axe-throwing & archery
on site by arrangement
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Metal Detecting
by arrangement through Suffolk Sandlands
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Yoga
on site
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Scavenger Hunts
on site
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River Tours
15 mins away
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Canoeing
15 mins away
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Foraging & Bushcraft
on site
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Vineyard tours
15 mins away
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Horse Riding
10 mins away
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Croquet
at the Farmhouse or by request
EXPLORE THE WILD SUFFOLK COAST
There are miles of excellent walking and cycling through fields and forest on your doorstep at Butley Abbey Wilds. The Butley Creek estuary is 1.5 miles away, with its great range of bird life, summer and winter. Butley village and its ancient Oyster Inn is just a few minutes away by car. The pretty coastal village of Orford is 15 minutes away, you can bike or walk there using the Butley Ferry in the summertime. There is sailing, crabbing and river trips from Orford quay on the Alde Estuary.
Orford is home to the famous Pump Street Bakery and chocolate shop, The Butley-Orford Oysterage and home to the famous Pinney's of Orford Smokehouse and restaurant and several fine pubs. With its grocery, butcher and fish shop you need go no further.
LOCAL DAY TRIPS
Woodbridge, voted one of the top 10 high streets in the UK is a 15 minute drive away from Butley Abbey Wilds, with glorious walks along the River Deben.
For music lovers there is Snape Maltings nearby, with music all year round, a Saturday Farmers Market and a range of irresistible and eccentric shops.
Aldeburgh is 25 minutes away, a handsome Victorian resort perched on the sea front with a large range of shops, pubs, cafes, restaurants and famous fish and chips. Aldeburgh has a very good golf course as does Thorpeness and Woodbridge.
Thorpeness boating lake and the famous ‘House in the clouds’ are close by too. The Suffolk coast has deservedly become a popular destination for holidays in the UK.
Much of the the new Ralph Fiennes film The Dig, about the discovery of Sutton Hoo, was filmed at Butley Creek, just over a mile away from the farmhouse. The ancient boat burial grounds at Sutton Hoo are a 15 minute drive away. The cult TV series The Detectorists with Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones was also filmed in the countryside around Butley.
