The Food Museum
The Food Museum is a museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Running it is The Food Museum Ltd. Our list has 6 more places within 15 km; first among them is Helmingham Hall, at 14 km.
Museum in Stowmarket
Inside Stowmarket
The Food Museum is inside Stowmarket’s built-up area. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
The climate through the year
Afternoons in Stowmarket peak at 17–23°C, May to September.
The Food Museum
It has articles in 3 Wikipedias.
- Type
- Museum
- Run by
- The Food Museum Ltd
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 3 languages
- Town
- in Stowmarket
- Official site
- foodmuseum.org.uk
Locating The Food Museum
Orange: The Food Museum.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Numbers: the places near it, as listed below. The dashed line is Stowmarket’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns close to The Food Museum
The biggest base of the 8 is Stowmarket (21,537 people). These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.
Stowmarket
Stowupland
Great Finborough
Haughley
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where The Food Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stowmarket | It’s in town | 21,537 | 2 |
| Stowupland | 2 km northeast of it | 2,019 | 1 |
| Great Finborough | 2.5 km west of it | 844 | 1 |
| Haughley | 3.5 km north of it | 1,316 | 3 |
| Old Newton | 3.9 km north of it | 799 | 3 |
| Battisford Tye | 4.3 km southwest of it | 475 | 1 |
| Needham Market | 4.4 km southeast of it | 5,055 | 1 |
| Wetherden | 5.8 km northwest of it | 552 | 2 |
What else is near The Food Museum
Of the 6 within 15 km, look for 4 museums, a castle and a zoo.
CastleHelmingham Hall14 km away2
MuseumMid Suffolk Light Railway11 km away3ZooZooSuffolk Owl Sanctuary10 km away4MuseumMuseumWoolpit & District Museum8.1 km away5MuseumMuseumHaughley Green Air Raid Shelter6.4 km away6MuseumMuseumCotton Mechanical Music Museum & Bygones9.5 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
The Food Museum in questions
Where is The Food Museum?
The Food Museum is in Stowmarket, Suffolk, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is The Food Museum?
Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
Who runs The Food Museum?
The Food Museum Ltd.
When is the best time to visit The Food Museum?
May to September are the warmest months in Stowmarket, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near The Food Museum?
Within 15 km: Helmingham Hall (14 km), Mid Suffolk Light Railway (11 km), Suffolk Owl Sanctuary (10 km) and Woolpit & District Museum (8.1 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- The Food Museum: Martinevans123, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Helmingham Hall: Chris Holifield, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mid Suffolk Light Railway: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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