Other sights in SuffolkSuffolk, England

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

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.

The transmitter block at Bawdsey Manor where operational radar was born, now a museum above the Deben mouth.

A slender six-storey Tudor brick folly above the Orwell, arguably the oldest folly in England.

A rambling artillery fort guarding the mouth of the Orwell at Felixstowe, with a nature reserve on the shingle point below.

The northernmost of the coast's Napoleonic Martello towers, a quatrefoil-plan drum on the shingle south of Aldeburgh.

A scenic Orwell-side hamlet of Thames barges and mud berths, immortalised by Arthur Ransome, with a waterside pub.

A converted Victorian maltings on the Alde reedbeds, now a concert hall, galleries, shops and marsh walks.

Fifteenth-century packhorse bridge of flint and brick, its four pointed arches crossing the little River Kennett in the Suffolk village of Moulton.