Places to explore in SuffolkEngland · East of England

A restored Victorian pier at Southwold with an eccentric water clock and hand-built penny-arcade machines over the North Sea.

The mill and cottage of Constable's Hay Wain.

Wild shingle spit with lighthouse and pagodas.

A disguised water tower dressed as a five-storey cottage in the sky, overlooking Thorpeness Meare.

Maggi Hambling's four-metre steel scallop shell on Aldeburgh beach, a tribute to the composer Benjamin Britten.

Complete curtain wall of thirteen linked towers.

Britain's largest protected wetland — a watery maze of rivers, fens and windmills.

302 km²

Anglo-Saxon royal ship-burial mounds by the Deben.

England's best-preserved medieval wool town, a tilting crush of timber-framed houses round a Tudor guildhall and one of the country's grandest parish churches.

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A riverside lido on the Waveney, saved by local people in 2010 and now heated and open all year.

A remote row of coastguard cottages on a mile of lonely shingle at the mouth of the Ore, known for seals and a shell line.

A yew-hedge maze of the 1840s beside a mansion rebuilt for railway contractor Sir Morton Peto.