Waldringfield Pit

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Waldringfield Pit is one of 133 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Suffolk. It is the smallest of them. Woodbridge Station is about 4.1 km away to the north. For more of the same, Ipswich Heaths and Sutton and Hollesley Heaths are close by.

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