In the mid 1980s Woolpit History Group started field-walking throughout the parish. After several years three Roman sites and eight Medieval sites had been found.
In 1983 the Woolpit and District Museum was begun to display and look after the finds. The History Group took over a store-room on the upper floor of the Woolpit Village Memorial Institute and began to set up the smallest Museum in the Suffolk.
There are two permanent displays. The first shows the famous Woolpit Brickmaking Works presented as a 3D model of the site as it was in its later days, with a collection of bricks, tiles, photos and various tools used in the trade. The second display is a reconstruction of a Victorian Kitchen with artefacts, which might have been used in everyday life up to the 1920s.
Contact details...
Woolpit and District Museum
The Street
Woolpit
Suffolk
IP30 9QH
E: museum@woolpit.org
W: www.woolpit.org/museum/
Open every Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday 2pm to 4.30pm from 2nd April to 25th September 2022.
Also open on Wednesday afternoons in August from 1pm to 3.30pm.
The museum can open at other times by appointment and welcomes group visits as well.