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2009 Sudbury Guide.Indd LOCAL TOURISM A SHORT GUIDE TO SIGHTSEEING THINGS TO DO WALKS SHOPPING SUDBURY SPORT & LEISURE Ancient Suffolk Market Town EVENTS STREET MAP Birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough Published by The Sudbury Society udbury is a thriving and ancient radiating from it, particularly North Smarket town set in the heart of the Street. Market Hill itself is a fine River Stour valley and well known as public space, although perhaps its the home of Thomas Gainsborough. architecture is best appreciated on Further down river a Sunday morning when it is quieter is the landscape and there are fewer cars about. which inspired John On Thursdays and Saturdays Constable. The Market Hill is crowded with stalls for whole valley area is today designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Morris dancing outside the Mill Hotel An Iron Age settlement once occupied the high ground in Sudbury, roughly between The Croft and Stour Street, but the foundation of the present town dates Gardens in School Street from the Middle Saxon period. The the long-established markets which present semi- attract shoppers from the town circular street and the surrounding villages and pattern represents communities. successive A short walk down Gainsborough expansions of the Street is Gainsborough’s House, the town in Saxon and painter’s birthplace, now an excellent Norman times. museum and gallery. From Friars The medieval Street, with its elegant Georgian woollen cloth façades, you may turn down Quay Salter's Hall and Chantry, Stour Street industry, the Lane to reach another coming of the river navigation and of Sudbury’s special the railway and the19th century features, the area silk industry, all helped to generate round The Quay. prosperity and contributed to the For two centuries the unique and diverse building heritage River Stour Navigation that is Sudbury’s pride. For example, was the main artery there are three fine medieval of the town and a busy churches and impressive timber- barge traffic linked the framed cloth merchants' houses but town with the sea. also many terraces of three-storey Here one old 19th century silk weavers' cottages warehouse has been converted to where the weavers worked at their a theatre and the other into the hand looms lit by the wide, first-floor headquarters of the River Stour Trust. windows. Whilst being proud of its heritage The main shopping area centres Sudbury does not live in the past and Gainsborough’s statue Gainsborough’s on Market Hill and the streets has many other attractions. 1 More information can be found at www.sudburysuffolk.co.uk With ample 3-hour free parking WHAT’S close to the centre, there is a wide range of specialist small shops, often independently run, as well as many SPECIAL High Street names. The town centre ABOUT SUDBURY? Market Hill also has an array of restaurants and minutes walk is the peace and quiet cafés to suit all tastes, and friendly beauty of the ancient Common local pubs serving East Anglian beers. Lands, bounding the River Stour, Visiting families might explore Belle which loops around the town. A Vue Park, one of the town’s hidden place to sit and picnic, fish or take a attractions yet only a few minutes leisurely stroll. This close relationship walk from Market Hill. The Kingfisher of town and country is one of Leisure Centre is in Station Road Sudbury’s unique features and makes with free parking and Waitrose it such a special place both for supermarket nearby. On the edge residents and visitors. of town along the eastern bypass there are a growing number of large stores and other commercial outlets. The town won the coveted Anglia in Boat rides on the Stour Bloom Award in 2001 and 2002. We have left perhaps the best thing to last. Sudbury has a vibrant commercial heart yet the visitor, on foot, can easily take various routes to leave behind the bustle of North Street and Market Hill. Within a few 2 Sudbury’s ‘Common Land’s’ looking towards the Mill Hotel 1 The Town Hall A dignified and tools against a stook of sheaves. It was elegant expression of local civic saved from demolition and skilfully pride dating from 1826, the Town Hall converted into a Library in 1969. In faces St Peter’s Church. At the side, addition to the normal lending services down Gaol Lane, is the Town Council there are local and family history Advice Centre 01787 372331. Further research facilities and free access to the down, through the entrance to what internet. 01787 296000 was once the old Town Gaol, is the 6 Gainsborough’s House Tourist Information Centre 01787 881320, Thomas Gainsborough, one of and Town Heritage Centre. The TIC England’s most celebrated artists was born here in 1727 and indeed 1 has leaflets for the Talbot Trail, ,which starts here, and nearby Weavers Piece, much of his early work depicted a garden celebrating Sudbury's long local scenes and people.The house is history of textile making. entered via Weavers Lane. It is now 2 St Peter’s Church dominates a national museum dedicated to the the eastern end of the market place, a artist. Here you will find more of the building of splendid proportions and artist’s paintings, drawings and prints lovingly cared for by The Friends of St on display than anywhere else in the Peter’s. Although now redundant it is world. The House also offers visitors a a lively venue for concerts, exhibitions, lively programme of contemporary art craft fairs and other local events. exhibitions, a gift shop and a coffee Usually open on Market Days; you shop. Next door is the Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop where you can 2 can get the key at other times (see notice at the door). Inside, there is a often find printmakers working their feeling of spaciousness and height with presses. Behind, there is a tranquil fine timber roofs to admire and much walled garden with an ancient mulberry else of interest. Outside, the statue tree. 01787 372958 of Thomas Gainsborough, palette in 7 St Gregory’s Church hand, gazes down Market Hill towards Christians have worshipped on this site his birthplace. On the north side of the for well over 1,000 years; Bishop Aelfhun church is the famous drinking trough visited Sudbury in 797 AD. (He died where, in the book 101 Dalmatians, here and you can see his statue just Pongo and Missis took a drink at midnight. outside the churchyard wall on The 3 Sudbury Market On Thursdays Croft.) The grisly relic of the head of and Saturdays all is noise and bustle as Simon of Sudbury is kept locked in the stall holders arrive and Market Hill the vestry. Simon founded a college for 3 begins to fill with shoppers. Many local priests here and became Archbishop markets are a shadow of their former of Canterbury and then Chancellor of selves; Sudbury’s retains a rich England. His introduction of the, poll vitality and vibrancy. This area has tax contributed to the Peasants Revolt been a market place since the in 1381 and his beheading at the hands 14th century. of a London mob. Inside the church note 4 Auction Off the market the fine carved misericords, chancel place, down Burkitts Lane, is stalls and 15th century font cover (the the Auction Room. Until quite tallest in Suffolk). recently local livestock was still 8 The Croft and Mill Acre being brought for sale here; The Croft is a large, triangular green what survives today are the sloping down to the mill cut where regular auctions of household children love to feed the many ducks 6 goods and personal effects, and swans. It has been an open space held on alternate Thursdays. for centuries. Fairs were held here Auctioneers 01787 880305 until 1862 when the Borough Council 5 Sudbury Library decided that “they had deteriorated This fine building dominates into mere pleasure fairs to the the western end of Market hindrance of the trade of the town”. Hill, embodying what The fine oak trees may look ancient Nicolas Pevsner called but were actually planted in 1902 “the early Victorian sense to commemorate the Coronation of of security, superiority King Edward VII. and prosperity”. For over Over the footbridge is Mill Acre, where there is a boating pond, 8 100 years it was the Corn Exchange; look up high picnic place and, beyond, the on the façade for the wide expanse of Great group of reclining Fullingpit Meadow beckoning NB photo numbers link to text and map reapers resting with their the walker. 3 9 Belle Vue Park, in the grounds on the north side. In the tree-lined of Belle Vue House, has attractive churchyard is the Gainsborough family WHAT TO SEE formal and informal gardens with large tomb. Inside, there is a areas for relaxing, picnicking or casual beautifully proportioned ball games. A wide range of leisure and nave, each arch decorated play facilities are provided including with shields, floral devices AROUND toddler and children’s playgrounds, a and crowns. There is also a SUDBURY skateboard park, trim trail, cable ride, rare pre-Reformation pulpit, a stunning tennis and basketball courts and a lectern in the form of a standing angel putting green. All ages can enjoy the and a finely carved set of screens. Pet Area. Toilets on site; park open all 14 Ballingdon Bridge The design of this stunning new bridge, opened the year round until dusk. Belle, Vue House now houses the Citizens Advice in 2003, was chosen from five entries Bureau.
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