Villages & towns in SuffolkSuffolk, England

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 shingle-beach town of pastel houses and fishermen's huts selling fresh fish, home to the Britten festival and Maggi Hambling's Scallop.

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A genteel seaside town of colour-washed cottages and beach huts round a lighthouse and greens, with a Victorian pier and the Adnams brewery.

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A creek-side village of greens and cottages across the Blyth from Southwold, famous for its ferry and its crab-catching tradition.

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Pink-washed thatched cottages set behind a broad green in the Stour valley, backed by the flint tower of St Mary's church.

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A small former wool town packed with Tudor houses, a castle mound, a Saxon earthwork and a medieval priory within a short stroll.

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A market town gathered below a great 12th-century castle with its curtain-wall walk, and a church holding the ornate Howard tombs.

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A picture-book Victorian estate village of thatched model cottages round a green, beside Somerleyton Hall and its gardens.

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A Stour-valley wool village of timbered houses whose tall church tower, painted repeatedly by Constable, rides the ridge above Dedham Vale.

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A riverside market town above the tidal Deben, its quayside working tide mill, boatyards and Georgian streets making it one of Suffolk's most beguiling.

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Constable's birthplace at the heart of Dedham Vale, its church famed for a rare timber bell cage housing the bells at ground level.

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A long Stour-valley village with two great houses, a brewery and one of the finest wool churches in East Anglia at its northern end.

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The remnant of a once-great medieval port largely lost to the sea, now a quiet beach, heath and a single street below crumbling cliffs.

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A single steep street of colour-washed and timbered cottages dropping to a watersplash ford across the stream, with a hilltop church at the top.

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A riverside village on the Ore with a polygonal Norman castle keep, a smokehouse quay and boats out to the Orford Ness shingle spit.

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A whimsical Edwardian holiday village of mock-Tudor and Jacobean cottages around the Meare boating lake, overlooked by the House in the Clouds.

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A riverside Stour-valley village of timber-framed and colour-washed houses, its church holding a rare altarpiece by Constable.

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A conservation-area hamlet of thatched and timber-framed houses strung along the River Brett, crossed by a double-humped medieval bridge.

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A near-vanished coastal hamlet where a small thatched church shelters inside the ruins of a vast one, above eroding golden cliffs.

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A River Alde village whose Victorian maltings has become a celebrated concert hall and arts complex among the reedbeds.

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A former wool town of Tudor houses around a small market square, anchored by the 15th-century coaching inn The Crown.

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A Waveney-valley village linked by legend to the martyrdom of St Edmund, with timber cottages and a fine medieval church.

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