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A market town for over 1000 years and still hosting a provisions market on each and every Friday and Saturday. Recorded in the Domesday survey in 1086, but before archaeological evidence shows that both Stone Age man and later the Romans thought this valley was a good place to settle. […]

Typical Suffolk market town with a host of shops along The Thoroughfare. The town has a long history with the brewing industry, malting and agriculture. The market place boasts some of the town’s finest and most historical buildings. Worthy of a visit is the town railway station with its unique […]

A royal town for the 9th century Danish King Guthrum, Hadleigh is today a busy, but still a beautiful market town. Guthrum had been captured by King Alfred, but pardoned on the cndition that he became a Christian. He made Hadleigh his home and lived there for 12 years. On […]

Attractive market town with fine domestic architecutre, particularly in Market Hill and Castle Street. Remains of a gatehouse and external walls (and 13 towers) of 12th Century Castle. The castle’s most famous resident was Mary Tudor, aka Bloody Mary. She became Queen while living at the castle. Other monarchs associated […]

Felixstowe lays at the coastal tip of a flat peninsula bordered by the Rivers Deben and Orwell and the North Sea. The peninsula includes wide expanses of farmland, beautiful countryside which is dotted with pretty villages on the banks of the rivers these include, Nacton, Levington and Waldringfield. A thriving […]

Eye’s history dates back to Roman times. A small agricultural town south of Diss that sits on the River Dove. William Malet built Eye Castle on the only high ground in north Suffolk. The castle was attacked in 1173 by Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk. Although the attack failed it […]

The birthplace of artist John Constable (1776) and a place repeatedly painted by him. Of note is Bridge Cottage which was used as a location by the artist John Constable. There are several old Tudor houses and well known gardens at East Bergholt Place. The church (St Mary the Virgin) […]

The 13th Century port of Dunwich, with its six churches lies at the bottom of the sea and today all that is left is a small hamlet with around 100 people. Legend has it that on a quiet night you can still hear the sounds of the church bells as […]

Thriving community nestled in the heart of Suffolk. It has a long history dating back to its first settlement by the Angles in 550 AD. Close to the source of the River Deben and appears to derive its name from Old English words meaning the village in a deep valley.

Delightful little town on the River Stour. Many of the houses with exceptional partgeting. Among the best are Nethergate and White House. In the church is a 17th Century gallery pew and the heraldic glass in the East window is of the same period. Much of Clare’s history can be […]