Suffolk (Slow Travel)Suffolk represents quintessential East Anglia, a region that has locally distinctive architectural styles, regional accents, scenery, culture and climate. The county, which is low-lying but by no means flat, has some of its best scenery along the coast: a soft, dreamy landscape of river estuaries, remote marshes, reed-beds, beaches, shingle banks, sand spits and dunes. Elsewhere in the county can be found undulating farmland, sandy heaths, shady river banks and extensive forests. The area also has much appeal to visitors for its manmade heritage: the distinctive rural architecture of the Stour Valley (with its Constable painting associations) on the Suffolk-Essex border, the ancient town of Bury St Edmunds, the great country houses with their estates, ancient thatched churches hidden away from view and unspoiled market towns. Suffolk is also well known for its Anglo-Saxon heritage - the royal ceremonial burial site at Sutton Hoo and the reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow. |
Contents
Going Slow in Suffolk | 7 |
The Suffolk Heritage Coast | 15 |
The Waveney Valley | 69 |
Color section 2 | 96 |
Colour section 2 continued | 96 |
Southeast Suffolk | 99 |
Central East Suffolk | 127 |
South Suffolk The Stour Valley | 157 |
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12th-century castle 14th-century Adnams Aldeburgh Bawdsey beach Beccles Blythburgh boats Brandon Brewery building Bungay Bury St Edmunds café car park castle and 14th-century century church of St close Cycle Darsham Diss Dunwich East Anglia eccentric landmark Essex estuary farm Felixstowe ferry fish fooD & DrinK fooD& footpath Forest Framlingham garden green Halesworth Hall Heath High St High Street Hotel House Ipswich large-scale regeneration Lavenham Leiston Lowestoft market town marshes medieval menu miles Minsmere museum Norfolk Norwich ofthe Orford Ness Orwell peninsula picture-perfect south pink-washed and timber-fram plenty prettiest village Quay regeneration in recentyears restaurant River Blyth River Deben River Stour River Waveney road route shingle Shotley Snape Maltings Southwold St Mary’s St Peter’s Stour Valley Stowmarket Sudbury Suffolk Coast tea room There’s Thetford Thornham timber-framed cottages tower town’s trail Tudor village in Suolk village’s Walberswick walk Waveney Valley Woodbridge