Orfordness Lighthouse

Stood on Suffolk's lonely shingle spit beside the secret Cold War test sites, until coastal erosion forced its demolition in 2020.

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Orfordness Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Suffolk. It sits inside the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape. For arrivals by rail, Wickham Market Station is 14.1 km to the north-west.

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Shingle beaches, reedy estuaries and gorse heaths along a soft, low-lying coast made for gentle walking

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