EXPLORE MORE ENJOY MORE Nature Reserve GLORIOUSLY GREEN & PLEASANT LANDS Ever seen a hairy dragonfly? A Hobby, GOOD TIMES BY THE SEA From clifftop hills and seaside gardens to the southern marshes, land claimed from the Bearded Tit or Hawker? Just 3 Maybe now? Or next time… neatly mown lawns and tiny triangular town Creative, colourful, with fun by the spadeful... greens, is renowned for its elegant Blyth River in the 19th century, now part of the miles from Southwold town centre, 3 Take the family to the fair or circus when it’s in town q open spaces. But its wild side is just as Coast National Nature Reserve. North there’s a real wildlife treat in store. What’s on your bucket list? Have a nostalgic evening out at the of Southwold Pier, shingle and sandy Fens, dykes, reedbeds, mudflats and irresistible too. 3 Build a whole family of sand castles Electric Picture Palace arts cinema heathland becomes marsh and reedbeds pools created in 1999 offer a home to Together with neighbour, , inland - Easton Marshes are a great place to everything from otters to Count all the jolly beach huts Southwold sits entirely within The Suffolk Get tickets for the Southwold Arts Festival oystercatchers. Maps and trails: Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural watch migrating birds in spring and autumn Sweet dreams in a striped deckchair Enjoy a spot of Southwold Summer Theatre Beauty. Both parishes have Sites of Specific and at Buss Creek in winter, you might even suffolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/hen-

Get the best ice-cream in Southwold Lose yourself in the Maize Maze Scientific Interest on their north and south spot a Hen Harrier. reedbed

borders, and they are also home to reserves Watch Tim Hunkin’s cheeky water-clock ‘perform’ on the Pier Go on an Adnams gin making course Medieval managed by . Sit and sip a while with a local brew Take a circular walk back in time in a remarkable coppice wood of ash and Hear booming bittern, spot heron or let

A round of golf – crazy or otherwise your spirits soar with rare Marsh Harriers on hornbeam, recently loved back to life by the local community. It’s a world of dappled light, wide rides and sunny glades, graced by spotted orchids, Float a boat on the Model Yacht Pond orange tip butterflies and tiny treecreepers. Dozens of outdoor discoveries Put a toe in the water and a natural place for kids of all ages to hone their den-making skills! HISTORIC HARBOUR Stout suffolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/reydon-wood Maps and trails: Dive into the Under the Pier Show shoes a & RAILWAY WALK Super for Cycling Pedal off… across the boating lake must! Circular route: 4 miles (6.4 kms) Get the green light to visit the Amber Museum Explore Southwold and beyond by bike. Cycle hire for all the Start / finish: Southwold Pier family and bike racks are available in town, 1. With pier behind you, go left to walk along and rewarding discoveries

Unscramble the beach hut names the Promenade 3 all the way to Gun Hill 17 in this Area of

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After real adventure? café! Alternatively, follow ‘cliff’ path along Beauty are only a pedal 1. LESO ABY ______push away. (Don’t battle too long over this one) Check out the waves on a railings above beach huts to Gun Hill Cliff, Southwold is the start super-speedy adrenalin-rush-of- then take path down to end of prom. 2. TBAELR ______a-powerboat ride along the coast. Continue either on beach or path behind of Regional Cycle Route 31 (Victoria would be amused) dunes, (keep cottages on right) to Alfred leading to Raveningham on the Norfolk side (Gentler river trips also available!) sustrans.org.uk 3. of the Waveney Valley. TEHWI SSRHOE ______Corry Lifeboat Museum 19 and Blyth Angels (All a bit wavy) The ‘Southwold Cluster’ of estuary. Turn right along river into & Pinnacles church heritage trails 4. NIGAROR OSYB Southwold Harbour 20, past lifeboat ______Can you spot 10 differences includes cycle rides from (Was Adam Dalgleish one of them?) station; sea/river trips HQ; foot-ferry (to between these two pictures? Buss Creek Southwold to and Walberswick); Blackshore jetties, > 5. RM EBUL YSK _ _ _ Westleton. ______workshops, huts, smokehouses and 1 (Thinking, ELO style – remember them?) angelsandpinnacles.org.uk eateries. See 1953 storm water-line on 6. TIVAALN ______wall of historic Harbour Inn, then stay Please see key P (Brave choice) with riverside paths to Bailey Bridge for map overleaf Southwold Golf course 3 7. ZYLA ASYD footbridge, former river crossing for ______Foot-ferry to Walberswick (Better than hazy ones!) Victorian 3-foot gauge Southwold P 11 Why not enjoy being rowed across the

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u Methodist Church (right) and Adnams Brewery buildings (both sides) d 3 Southwold Museum Lighthouse: 101 ft high, 1,500,000 bricks oad C a P rk R r Turn right to detour to Arts Centre 6 in Cumberland Road, or continue ahead Did you know? Yo t 7 (right) and S 3 Sailors’ Reading Room Pier: 623 ft long; completed 2001; (Victoria Street) to Bartholomew Green for St Edmund’s Church l Road Just like all Southwold’s il Vi 3 Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum Britain’s only 21st 8 (left). At end of road, go M ctor century pier former weaver’s cottage, Southwold Museum museums, entry to P BS ia St WC k reet & Harbour c 9 8 Beach: Award-winning beach a left briefly onto High Street to view (left) Sutherland House (1455), rare the award-winning l 3 Gun Hill B H 4 Museums: Southwold Museum; Sailors’ survival of Southwold’s 1659 fire and HQ for the Duke of York and Earl Southwold Museum is ig 11 h 5 3 Market Square S Reading Room; Alfred Corry of Sandwich before the Battle of Sole Bay. Then cross over road, going free! What are you t re waiting for? e 3 Adnams Sole Bay Brewery & right via York Road (left) to Blackmill Road (left) for Electric Picture N G t Lifeboat Museum; Amber Museum st o Copper House Gin Distillery Palace 9 (right), a 21 century nostalgic re-creation, complete with dy Sole Bay Brewery: Adnams named it after spot where ll y’s Ro le Wurlitzer organ. Retrace a few steps, but go right down Manor Park ad od 13 British-French fleets battled 11 (ahead) take the o d 12 the Road. At Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church W ar WC 10) Y Dutch in 1672 footpath left with wide views (right - Southwold Common 10 14 BS Famous resident: Eric Blair aka writer, George Orwell towards Blyth estuary. Walk down to the track. Turn left. Track BS 18 Famous beach hut: becomes Woodley’s Yard leading onto High Street by United ‘Roaring Boys’ formerly owned by Reformed Church. 15 writer, P.D. James P Turn right, past Georgian frontage of Buckenham House (c.1540), now partly Park Lane 13 (left) nestles by the a gallery, to Market Place 12 where the Town Hall G 14 (right). a r Swan Hotel and real gems await in tiny Amber Museum d n l An inspiration all round e il Keeping right, High Street becomes Queen Street. As the greens r H 16 R

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Finally take clifftop path back towards the pier to Sailors’ Reading the 17th century, devasting fire ignited the desire for a new approach to Main bus stop: Kings Head, High Street, The Pier > St Edmund’s Church. Room 18. Descend to beach huts to return along the promenade. P town planning. In the late 1900s, local fishermen were helped to provide

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suffolkonboard.com WC > for their families in winter, by learning wood-carving and furniture-making 20 > 19 Trains: Regular service to & at the Southwold School of Industrial Art, their work exhibited and sold in London. Between 1893 and 1918, Southwold’s oldest sailing lifeboat, the Nearest station: & Halesworth Visitor Did you know? Alfred Corry saved 47 lives. It has a very special place in Southwold’s history Did you know? Timetables: nationalrail.co.uk Information Points Southwold lighthouse shines 17 miles and now has its own museum by the harbour.

The Sailors’ Reading Room was originally Look out for out to sea with a white navigation light. As ever, thriving Southwold goes about its business, honouring the past a fishermen’s refuge and now houses this sign It has been operational since Key and engaging with the future - from the visitors who come to share the 3rd September 1890 and is midway collections of maritime memorabilia, 1 Pier (2001) southwoldpier.co.uk WC Public Toilets charm and nostalgia of such a real, family seaside resort to its service-led

including colourful carved ship (seasonal) between Lowestoft and Orford. independent retailers, artisan bakers, smokehouses, fishmongers and 2 Boating Lake & Model Yacht Pond figureheads like Lord Nelson. You’ll find Why not climb the 113 steps to the top? innovative brewers, Adnams. Creative, colourful and home to vibrant southwoldboatinglakeandtearoom.co.uk P Parking Tours: Mar-Oct. See noticeboard at base. Lucille and Princess Augusta in annual theatre, music and literary festivals, Southwold is a real inspiration - 3 Promenade & Beach Huts

Southwold Museum and even a 4 Lighthouse (1890) trinityhouse.co.uk BS Bus stop/Shuttle not just to artists and writers, but to everyone. bus stop queen in Stradbroke Road. 5 Adnams Sole Bay Brewery (1872) & Copper Top Tip Mon-Sat only, House Gin Distillery (2010) tours.adnams.co.uk except Bhol Mons. 15th century St Edmund’s Church 6 Southwold Arts Centre (St Edmund’s Hall) is unusual. It was built in one go, Super Southwold Events THESUFFOLKCOAST.CO.UK se-arts.org in about 60 years, under a single Southwold Charter Fair (May) 7 St Edmund’s Church (1460) The Pocket Guide to southwoldmuseum.org continuous roof. Don’t miss its Southwold Arts Festival (June) southwoldartsfestival.co.uk 8 Southwold Museum (1933) fine flintwork, medieval painted Southwold Summer Theatre southwoldtheatre.org 9 Electric Picture Palace (2002) screen, cheeky bench carvings

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* * 12 Market Place going to press, but is Christmas Day Swim & Traditional Pantomime (Dec/Jan) Seaside Walks Green Spaces 13 Town Hall (c.1810) southwoldtown.com subject to alteration. The Pocket Guide to Southwold is produced in association with Family Fun * Cultural Events & Activities Southwold also regularly hosts popular artisan markets, 14 Amber Museum ambershop.co.uk/amber-museum All rights reserved. Southwold Town Council and with thanks to funding partners: No part of this publication fêtes, model railway exhibitions & antique fairs. Explore a little. Discover a lot. Enjoy all the more! 15 Southwold School of Industrial Art (1894) may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval 16 South Green system, or transmitted in 17 Gun Hill any form or by any means, electronic, 18 Sailors’ Reading Room (1864) mechanical, Southwold photocopying, recording Town Council southwoldsailorsreadingroom.co.uk or otherwise without the alfredcorry.co.uk > 19 Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum prior permission of the publishers. © 2018 Drab Ltd/Xtrahead Content, design & production: wearedrab.co.uk / xtrahead.co.uk 20 Southwold Harbour > Illustration: wearedrab.co.uk Photography: xtrahead.co.uk