Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 1 G u d i e o t R u a r l E n g a l n d S U F F O L K A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 2 G LOCATOR MAP u d i Downham Pentney Hethersett Freethorpe e Ashill Market Kimberley Gorleston-on-Sea t Oxborough Upper Reedham Belton o Denver Great Watton Wymondham Stoke Hingham Thurton Stoke Cressingham Hopton-on-Sea R Scoulton Brooke Hilgay Ferry Loddon Corton Griston u Cranwich Raveningham r Attleborough Hempnall Lowestoft a Southery Methwold Mundford l Great Hockham Long Broome Feltwell Beccles E New Stratton Bungay Croxton Buckenham n Kenninghall g Littleport Kessingland l BrandonThetford a Harleston Flixton Wrentham n Ely Bressingham Brampton d Lakenheath Garboldisham Diss Elveden Fakenham Redgrave Halesworth Wangford S Beck Magna Southwold Row Mildenhall Botesdale Blythburgh U Stanton Eye Soham Laxfield F Tuddenham Yaxley Walberswick Wicken Fordham St Mary Culford Horham Sibton Dunwich F West Stow Ixworth Finningham O Yoxford Higham Cotton SUFFOLK Eastbridge L Debenham Earl Soham Saxmundham K Bury Leiston Newmarket St Edmunds Framlingham Stonham Aspal Stowmarket Farnham Thorpeness Lidgate Brockley Burrough Green Needham Wickam Market Marlesford Aldeburgh Green Market Stradishall Hartest Butley Orford Balsham Lavenham Claydon Woodbridge Cavendish Monks Eleigh Bramford Long Little Haverhill Melford Waldingfield Ipswich Shottisham Hadleigh Steeple Bumpstead Sudbury Saffron Walden Chelmondiston Great Bulmer Bawdsey Yeldham Tye Stratford St Mary Wimbish Bures Nayland Shotley Felixstowe Finchingfield Dedham Manningtree Debden Thaxted Halstead Boxted Harwich Towns and Villages Aldeburgh pg2 8 Brandeston pg5 2 Cavendish pg8 7 Aldringham pg2 8 Brandon pg1 11 Charsfield pg5 1 Alpheton pg1 03 Brantham pg7 2 Chelmondiston pg 65 Bardwell pg9 9 Brent Eleigh pg 81 Chelsworth pg8 1 Barningham pg9 9 Brockford pg4 6 Chillesford pg3 9 Bawdsey pg4 1 Bromeswell pg3 7 Clare pg88 Baylham pg4 5 Bruisyard pg2 5 Cockfield pg1 02 Beccles pg8 Bungay pg9 Constable Country pg 70 Bildeston pg7 0 Bures pg75 Cotton pg4 7 Blundeston pg6 Bury St Edmunds pg 90 Covehithe pg1 4 Blythburgh pg1 9 Butley pg3 9 Cretingham pg5 2 Boxford pg7 5 Buxhall pg4 3 Dalham pg1 08 Bradfield pg1 02 Campsea Ashe pg 40 Debenham pg5 0 Bramfield pg2 0 Capel St Mary pg 71 Dennington pg5 0 Bramford pg6 2 Carlton Colville pg 12 Dunwich pg2 1 A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 3 G Towns and Villages u d i e o t R EarlS oham pg5 0 Hintlesham pg6 7 Otley pg51 u Earl Stonham pg 45 Hollesley pg4 1 Pakenham pg9 7 a r l Earsham pg1 1 Honington pg9 9 Parham pg5 1 E n East Bergholt pg 72 Horham pg5 6 Peasenhall pg2 5 g a l Easton pg5 1 Horringer pg1 04 Polstead pg7 4 n Edwardstone pg 75 Hoxne pg55 Ramsholt pg4 2 d S Elmswell pg4 3 Icklingham pg9 5 Redgrave pg1 00 U Elveden pg1 11 Ipswich pg5 8 Rendlesham pg3 7 F F Erwarton pg6 7 Ixworth pg9 9 Rickinghall pg 100 O Euston pg9 7 Kedington pg8 9 Saxmundham pg 25 L Exning pg1 08 Kentford pg1 08 Saxtead Green pg 50 K Eye pg53 Kersey pg7 9 Shimpling pg1 04 Felixstowe pg6 3 Kessingland pg 13 Shotley pg6 7 Flempton pg9 6 Lackford pg9 7 Sibton pg2 5 Flixton pg1 2 Lavenham pg8 1 Snape pg31 Framlingham pg 49 Lawshall pg1 04 Somerleyton pg7 Framsden pg5 2 Laxfield pg5 7 Southwold pg1 4 Fressingfield pg 57 Leiston pg2 6 Stanton pg9 9 Freston pg6 5 Levington pg6 2 Stoke by Nayland pg 74 Friston pg2 6 Little Thurlow pg 90 Stonham Aspal pg 45 Glemsford pg8 7 Long Melford pg 85 Stowmarket pg4 2 Great Thurlow pg 90 Lound pg7 Stratford St Mary pg 74 Great Welnetham pg 103 Lowestoft pg5 Stutton pg6 7 Hadleigh pg7 7 Mendham pg1 2 Sudbury pg7 6 Hales pg9 Mendlesham pg 46 SuttonH oo pg3 6 Harleston pg4 3 Mildenhall pg 109 Tattingstone pg 65 Hartest pg1 04 Monks Eleigh pg 67 Theberton pg2 5 Haughley pg4 3 Moulton pg1 08 Thelnetham pg 100 Haverhill pg9 0 Nacton pg6 2 Thornham Magna pg 48 Hawkedon pg1 03 Nayland pg7 3 Thornham Parva pg 48 Helmingham pg5 2 Needham Market pg 43 Thorpe Morieux pg 102 Hengrave pg9 5 Newbourne pg6 3 Thorpeness pg2 8 Herringfleet pg7 Newmarket pg 105 Hessett pg1 00 Orford pg4 0 A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 4 G Suffolk u d i e o t Suffolk is a county with a wealth of attractions and rich farm land. The little market towns of R u to delight the visitor: rural beauty, rivers and Stowmarket and Needham Market are full of a r l nature reserves, windmills and watermills, ancient interest, and in this part of Suffolk some of the E n wool towns and villages, churches hardly touched best-preserved windmills and watermills are to g a l by the Victorian ‘improvers’, stately homes, be found. n d thriving ports and holiday resorts, a conservation Much of Suffolk’s character comes from its S coastline standing defiant against the North Sea. rivers, and in the part of the county U F Suffolk is very much a maritime county, with surrounding Ipswich, the Orwell and the Stour F over 50 miles of coastline. The whole coast is a mark the boundaries of the Shotley Peninsula. O L conservation area, which the 50-mile Suffolk The countryside here is largely unspoilt, with K Coastal Path makes walkable throughout. With wide-open spaces between scattered villages. all the miles of meandering rivers and superb John Constable, England’s greatest landscape stretches of coastline, it is only natural that painter, was born at East Bergholt in 1776 and watery pursuits are a popular pastime, and many remained at heart a Suffolk man throughout his of the local museums also have a nautical theme; life. The Suffolk tradition of painting continues the Suffolk coast has been a source of to this day, with many artists drawn particularly inspiration for many of the nation’s most to Walberswick and what is known as Constable distinguished artists, writers and composers. Ccountry. The sea brings its own dangers, even in human Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, the A134 and the form, and it was against the threat of a A14 frame the northern part of West Suffolk, Napoleonic invasion that Martello Towers were which includes Bury St Edmunds, a pivotal built in southeastern Suffolk, in the tradition of player in the country’s religious history, and Saxon and Tudor forts and the precursors of Newmarket, one of the major centres of the concrete pillboxes. The marshes by the coast horseracing world. Between and above them are have traditionally been a source of reeds, the picturesque villages, bustling market towns, rich raw material for the thatch that is such a pretty farming countryside, the fens, and the expanse sight on so many Suffolk buildings. Reed- of sandy heath and pine forest that is Breckland. cutting happens between December and The area south and west of Bury towards the February, the beds being drained in preparation Essex border contains some of Suffolk’s most and reflooded after the crop has been gathered. attractive and peaceful countryside. The visitor Thatching itself is a highly skilled craft, but 10 will come upon a succession of picturesque weeks of work can give a thatched roof 50 villages, historic churches, remarkable stately years of life. homes, heritage centres and nature reserves. In Inland Suffolk has few peers in terms of the south, along the River Stour, stand the picturesque countryside and villages, and the historic wool towns of Long Melford, Cavendish area of central Suffolk between the heathland and Clare. And, of course, Sudbury, the and the coast is a delightful place for getting birthplace of the painter Thomas Gainsborough, away from it all to the real countryside, with and the largest of the wool towns, still home to a unchanged ancient villages, gently flowing rivers number of weaving concerns. A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks Looking for somewhere to stay, eat, drink or shop? www.findsomewhere.co.uk 5 Lowestoft also responsible for Nelson’s Column, the G statues in the Houses of Parliament, the u d i B Lowestoft & East Suffolk Maritime Museum Reform Club and Somerleyton Hall. e o t B Royal Naval Patrol Museum B Maritime Museum At the heart of the town is the old harbour, R home to the Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht u B War Memorial Museum B Lowestoft Museum a r Club and the Lifeboat Station. Further upriver l B ISCA Maritime Museum E is the commercial part of the port, used chiefly n g a l The most easterly town in Britain had its by ships carrying grain and timber.