Crag Pit, Aldeburgh

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Crag Pit, Aldeburgh is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Suffolk. The county has 133 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. It is the smallest of them. It lies within the Suffolk Coast & Heaths National Landscape.

For arrivals by rail, Saxmundham Station is about 8.9 km to the north-west. For more of the same, Leiston - Aldeburgh and Alde-Ore Estuary are close by.

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