TOP 10 Things to do in Suffolk, England 2024!
TOP 10 Things to do in Suffolk, England 2024!
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Suffolk, England is an amazing place to visit in England. If you want to know top 10 what to do in Suffolk or you need a travel guide, please keep watching.
Before we reach our top pick, don’t miss the chance to visit Southwold Pier. This traditional British pier offers a delightful mix of amusement arcades, shops, and eateries, all set against the backdrop of the stunning Suffolk coastline. Enjoy a walk along the pier, savor some fresh seafood, and take in the panoramic sea views. It’s a quintessential Suffolk experience that’s sure to charm visitors of all ages.
And now, the highlight of our Suffolk journey—the Lavenham: Medieval Village Self-Guided Audio Tour. Lavenham, known as one of England's best-preserved medieval villages, is a delight for history enthusiasts and casual visitors alike. This self-guided audio tour allows you to explore the village at your own pace, uncovering the rich history behind its timber-framed buildings, cobbled streets, and historic landmarks. Discover the stories of Lavenham’s past, from its prosperous wool trade to its role in various historical events. Best of all, you can experience this captivating tour at a discounted rate by clicking the link in the description be
16 Best Things To Do in Norfolk and Suffolk
16 Best Things To Do in Norfolk and Suffolk! These two incredible counties in East Anglia are home to some incredible coastlines, forests, ancient roman forts, iconic windmills, gorgeous towns and villages, as well as lots and lots of seals.
In this video, we are exploring across all the National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the area, including Norfolk Coast AONB, The Broads National Park, Thetford Forest Park & Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB.
Locations Mentioned in the video:
- Horsey Windpump, Norfolk - 0:26
- The Broads National Park, Norfolk & Suffolk - 0:49
- Brograve Mill Walk, Norfolk - 1:19
- Horsey Gap, Norfolk (great place to see seals)- 2:02
- Orford Ness, Suffolk - 3:03
- Orford Castle, Suffolk - 4:36
- Burgh Castle Roman Fort, Norfolk - 5:37
- Berney Arms Windmill, Norfolk - 6:14
- Boat Hire on the Norfolk Broads - 6:31
- Sheringham Park, Norfolk - 6:41
- Thetford Forest Park (Grime's Graves), Norfolk - 6:57
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 7:26
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk - 7:50
- Pleasure Beach, Model Village, Upside Down House, Arcades, Ferris Wheel & Crazy Golf
- Time & Tide Museum - 8:10
- Venetian Gardens - 8:37
- Central Pier and Beach - 8:45
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5 Pretty villages in Suffolk you must visit
Visiting pretty villages in Suffolk was one of the things we were most looking forward to about our recent trip. Suffolk is a county with so much history and you an see that rich history captured in villages all over the county. We have just 5 pretty villages here but there are so many more we didn't get to, so we'd love to hear your tips for future trips!
Many seem to have escaped the advance of the modern world and retain the feel they must have had for hundreds of years. From a village largely now under the sea, to the birth place of Harry Potter and a ferry which has operated for 700 years!!!
Our journey through 5 pretty villages will hopefully give you a taste of what is on offer in Suffolk, it really is a beautiful county and we'd definitely recommend a trip!
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Top Ten Most Beautiful Villages In Suffolk
Top Ten Most Beautiful Villages In Suffolk
Suffolk is a stunning county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east.
The county is low-lying but it has quite a few hills and largely arable land with the wetlands of the Broads in the north. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths are known as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Villages and towns in Suffolk are renowned for their historic pink-washed halls and cottages, which are widely known as ‘Suffolk Pink’. Decorative paint colours found in the county can range from a pale shell shade, to a deep blush brick colour.
We've had a lot of fun compiling this list of beautiful villages in Suffolk.
We've listed our top ten favourites. What are yours?
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10. Polstead
9. Somerleyton
8. Thorpeness
7. Shottisham
6. East Bergholt
5. Long Melford
4. Lavenham
3. Kersey
2. Cavendish
1. Coddenham
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Top 10 Hidden Gems in England | UK Adventure Guide
England is home to incredible hidden gems that are a must visit for adventurers. In this UK adventure guide I share with you the top 10 hidden gems in England I have found while on my hiking adventures!
1. B29 OVEREXPOSED Crash Site (Peak District)
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2. West Kennet Long Barrow (North Wessex Downs)
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3. Kennall Vale Nature Reserve (Cornwall)
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4. R.O.C posts (Burgh-on-Bain ROC Post)
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5. Racton Ruins (South Downs)
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6. Farleigh Down Tunnel and Sidings (Cotswold)
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7. Bayham Old Abbey (High Weald)
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8. Bodiam Castle (High Weald)
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9. Winspit Quarry (Jurassic Coast)
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10. Leiston Abbey (Suffolk Coast & Heaths)
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Discover Lowestoft and Oulton Broad on The Suffolk Coast
Sitting proudly in the northernmost part of The Suffolk Coast is Lowestoft. Famous for being the most easterly town and the first place to see the sunrise in the UK, it's also the birthplace of composer Benjamin Britten.
The town is a favourite with families, and there's plenty to see and do; with two piers, a wildlife park, an award-winning theme park, museums and a busy theatre which is home to the Royal Philhamonic Orchestra.
Forming the Southern Gateway to the Broads National Park, Oulton Broad is a busy tourist and sporting centre with many beautiful sights to take in, a range of activities to try out and places to visit, shop, eat and drink. It is a place to slow your pace and meander by cycle, foot or boat and admire the scenery and wildlife and explore at your leisure.
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Discover Felixstowe on The Suffolk Coast
Nestled between the rivers Orwell and Deben, Felixstowe is a charming seaside town with a vibrant town centre and a wonderful mix of attractions and activities to suit all ages and interests.
Did you know? Felixstowe is the only seaside resort in East Anglia to face southwards. Enjoy a cup of coffee at the View Point Cafe and you won’t be able to miss the huge container port at its southernmost point - known to be the largest container port in Britain.
The John Bradfield Viewing Area at Landguard Point offers stunning views across the estuary to the Shotley Peninsula and the Essex towns of Harwich and Dovercourt and if the weather is really clear you can even see the off-shore wind turbines beyond The Naze.
Famous visitors to the town include Wallis Simpson who stayed in the town for six weeks during the abdication and the actor Sir John Mills who grew up in Felixstowe. You can find a theatre named after him in nearby Ipswich.
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Thorpeness a strange place in Suffolk
The village was originally a small fishing hamlet in the late 19th century, with folklore stories of it being a route for smugglers into East Anglia. However in 1910, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, a Scottish barrister who had made his money designing railways around the world, bought the entire area from north of Aldeburgh to past Sizewell, up the coast and inland to Aldringham and Leiston.
Most of this land was used for farming but Ogilvie developed Thorpeness into a private fantasy holiday village, to which he invited his friends' and colleagues' families during the summer months. A country club with tennis courts and a swimming pool, a golf course and clubhouse and many holiday homes were built in Jacobean and Tudor Revival styles. A notable feature of the village is a set of almshouses built in the 1920s to the design of W.G. Wilson. To hide the eyesore of having a water tower in the village, the tank was clad in wood to make it look like a small house on top of a 5-storey tower, with a separate water-pumping windmill next to it. It is known as the House in the Clouds, and after mains water was installed in the village the old tank was transformed into a huge games room with views over the land from Aldeburgh to Sizewell.
For three generations Thorpeness remained mostly in the private ownership of the Ogilvie family, with houses only being sold from the estate to friends as holiday homes. In 1972, Alexander Stuart Ogilvie, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's grandson, died on the Thorpeness Golf Course and many of the houses and the golf course and country club were sold to pay death duties.
Places to see in ( Aldeburgh - UK )
Places to see in ( Aldeburgh - UK )
Aldeburgh is a coastal town in the English county of Suffolk. Located on the North Sea coast to the north of the River Alde, the town is notable for having been the home of composer Benjamin Britten and as the centre of the international Aldeburgh Festival of arts at nearby Snape Maltings founded by him in 1948.
Aldeburgh remains an artistic and literary centre with an annual Poetry Festival and several food festivals as well as other cultural events. Aldeburgh is a former Tudor port and was granted Borough status in 1529 by Henry VIII. Its historic buildings include a 16th-century moot hall and a Napoleonic-era Martello Tower.
Aldeburgh is a tourist destination with visitors attracted by its Blue Flag shingle beach and fisherman huts, where fresh fish are sold daily, and Aldeburgh Yacht Club as well as cultural attractions. Two family-run fish and chip shops are cited as among the best in the UK.
Aldeburgh is on the North Sea coast and is located around 87 miles (140 kilometres) north-east of London, 20 mi (32 km) north-east of Ipswich and 23 mi (37 km) south of Lowestoft. Locally it is 4 mi (6 km) south of the town of Leiston and 2 mi (3 km) south of the village of Thorpeness. It lies just to the north of the River Alde with the narrow shingle spit of Orford Ness all that stops the river meeting the sea at Aldeburgh - instead it flows another 9 mi (14 km) to the south-west.
The beach is mainly shingle and wide in places with fishing boats able to be drawn up onto the beach above the high tide, but narrows at the neck of Orford Ness. The shingle bank allows access to the Ness from the north, passing a Martello tower and two yacht clubs at the site of the former village of Slaughden. Aldeburgh was flooded during the North Sea flood of 1953 and flood defences around the town were strengthened as a result.
Aldeburgh is linked to the main A12 at Friday Street in Benhall by the A1094 road. The B1122 leads to Leiston. There are bus services to Leiston, southward to Woodbridge and Ipswich, and northward to Halesworth. The Aldeburgh Moot Hall is a Grade I listed timber-framed building which has been used for council meetings for over 400 years.
A unique quatrefoil Martello Tower stands at the isthmus leading to the Orford Ness shingle spit. It is the largest and northernmost of 103 English defensive towers built between 1808 and 1812 to resist a Napoleonic invasion. The Martello Tower is the only surviving building of the fishing village of Slaughden, which had been washed away by the North Sea by 1936. Near the Martello Tower at Slaughden Quay are the barely visible remains of the fishing smack Ionia. It had become stuck in the treacherous mud of the River Alde, and was then used as a houseboat. In 1974 it was burnt, as it had become too unsafe.
On Aldeburgh's beach, a short distance north of the town centre, stands a sculpture, The Scallop, dedicated to Benjamin Britten, who used to walk along the beach in the afternoons. Created from stainless steel by Suffolk-based artist Maggi Hambling, it stands 15 feet (4.6 metres) high, and was unveiled in November 2003.
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Discover Saxmundham, Leiston & Sizewell on The Suffolk Coast
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Located in the county of Suffolk, and around 20 miles northeast of Ipswich, is the town of Leiston (pronounced 'LAY-ston').
In 1182 Leiston Abbey was founded by Ranulf de Glanville, Henry II’s Chief Justiciar. In circa 1363 it was moved away from its original location on swampy ground, and rebuilt on its present site, about a mile north of the town centre. In 1537 the abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Parts of the abbey were repurposed as farm buildings.
In 1778 Richard Garrett formed manufacturing company Richard Garrett & Sons in Leiston. This was a producer of agricultural machinery, steam engines and trolleybuses. Their factory here was known as the Leiston Works. The Garrett family also invested in the community, helping Leiston achieve growth during this period. The company helped the war effort by producing munitions during both world wars. In 1981 the factory closed. Part of it remains in use as a museum today.
In 1859 a railway station opened in Leiston courtesy of the East Suffolk Railway. This formed part of the Aldeburgh branch line linking Saxmundham to Aldeburgh. The station was closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching Cuts - where over 2,000 stations across Britain were closed in order to promote road travel. The line is still in use today as it serves a nuclear power station at nearby Sizewell. Public transport to Leiston consists of direct buses from Ipswich, Saxmundham, Aldeburgh and other nearby settlements.
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Places to see in ( Thorpeness - UK )
Places to see in ( Thorpeness - UK )
Thorpeness is a village in the county of Suffolk, England. It is part of the parish of Aldringham cum Thorpe and is within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB. The village was originally a small fishing hamlet in the late 19th century, with folklore stories of it being a route for smugglers into East Anglia. However in 1910, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, a Scottish barrister who had made his money designing railways around the world, bought the entire area from north of Aldeburgh to past Sizewell, up the coast and inland to Aldringham and Leiston.
Most of this land was used for farming but Ogilvie developed Thorpeness into a private fantasy holiday village, to which he invited his friends' and colleagues' families during the summer months. A country club with tennis courts, a swimming pool, a golf course and clubhouse, and many holiday homes, were built in Jacobean and Tudor Revival styles. Thorpeness railway station, provided by the Great Eastern Railway to serve what was expected to be an expanding resort, was opened a few days before the outbreak of World War I. It was little used, except by golfers, and closed in 1966.
A notable feature of the village is a set of almshouses built in the 1920s to the design of W.G. Wilson. To hide the eyesore of having a water tower in the village, the tank was clad in wood to make it look like a small house on top of a 5-storey tower, with a separate water-pumping windmill next to it. It is known as the House in the Clouds, and after mains water was installed in the village the old tank was transformed into a huge games room with views over the land from Aldeburgh to Sizewell.
For three generations Thorpeness remained mostly in the private ownership of the Ogilvie family, with houses only being sold from the estate to friends as holiday homes. In 1972, Alexander Stuart Ogilvie, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's grandson, died on the Thorpeness Golf Course and many of the houses and the golf course and country club were sold to pay death duties.
Thorpeness is a quiet village of about 400 people in the winter, swelling to over 1,600 people in the summer holidays, with the highlight being a regatta on the Meare at the end of August and a huge fireworks display. It is also a popular day trippers destination with its beach and Meare, amenities and sights such as the House in the Clouds.
The Ogilvies still have a strong presence in the village and many of the families coming there for their holidays have been doing so for generations. Also many of the families of the craftsmen who helped build the village are still there. Thorpeness was listed as the 'Weirdest Village in England' by 'Bizarre' magazine in 2003.
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Exploring Leiston Abbey ruins
A visit to Leiston Abbey ruins, exploring them and finding out more about the history and the current residents of the farmhouse retreat, Pro Corda music school.
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Places to see in ( Woodbridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Woodbridge - UK )
Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, about 8 miles from the seacoast. Woodbridge lies along the River Deben. The town is served by Woodbridge railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.
Woodbridge is within a few miles of the wider Ipswich urban area. Woodbridge is close to the most important Anglo-Saxon site in the United Kingdom, the Sutton Hoo burial ship. With 1100 years of recorded history, the town has retained a variety of historical architecture. There are facilities for boating and riverside walks on the River Deben.
Woodbridge Quay Church in Quay Street, once known as the Quay Meeting House, embodies a 2006 merger of the town's Baptist and United Reformed congregations. It is affiliated to the Baptist Union of Great Britain and the Evangelical Alliance. There is a Methodist Church in St John's Street, a Salvation Army hall in New Street, and the Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas of Canterbury in St John's Street. The last forms a joint parish with Framlingham. Avenue Evangelical Church, on the outskirts of Woodbridge, is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches.
Woodbridge lies in the Suffolk Coastal district of the shire county of Suffolk. The Town Council was formed in 1974 as a third-tier successor to the Urban District Council and has a mayor and 16 councillors elected for four wards. The town lies in Suffolk Coastal parliamentary constituency and is currently represented by Conservative Therese Coffey and County Councillor Liberal Democrat Caroline Page.
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Discover Framlingham on The Suffolk Coast
The ancient market town of Framlingham is nestled in the Suffolk countryside and is a firm favourite with visitors and locals alike. Home to an array of independent cafes, restaurants, pubs and shops, here you can step back in time and enjoy a slower pace of life.
Framlingham is a small market town and home to the magnificent twelfth century castle belonging to the Earls and Dukes of Norfolk through the centuries. It is said that Mary I spent time here in 1553, before going to London to reclaim her throne from Lady Jane Grey.
Visit Saint Michael’s church where you can see the tomb of Henry Fitzroy - the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. You’ll notice the tomb is decorated with heraldic iconography, showing how important he was to his father.
Famously the multi-award winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran grew up in Framlingham and began writing songs inspired by the local area. His 2017 single ‘Castle on the Hill’ was inspired by the castle in his hometown.
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THORPENESS | Exclusive Holiday Village in Suffolk England
Thorpeness, I think it’s fair to stay is quite different to most places you may have come across in Suffolk. You will find it a unique village and probably not like anything you have seen before! It’s a great place to explore for a couple of hours as everything is within easy walking distance.
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Welcome to the Suffolk Coast
Stretching North from Felixstowe, the Suffolk Coastal has miles of heritage coast set in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
The rich and varied landscape of this heritage coast is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty. From the coastal towns and resorts to the rolling farmland, this landscape offers the visitor a wonderful variety of experiences.
Whether you want to build sandcastles and eat ice-cream or discover some of Britain's rarest wildlife, you can do it here on the Suffolk coast.
Our charming seaside towns are great for family holidays and our historic riverside villages are romantic places to stay. You'll find beautiful churches, historic castles, Anglo-Saxon burial sites, windmills and a fairytale meare, mysterious forests and leafy lanes. There is beautiful architecture, from medieval to present day. You are bound to find a gem that appeals.