Orford Castle
Orford Castle has a unique polygonal towerkeep. An 18-sided drum with three square turrets, the keep was built to a highly innovative design. Both exterior and interior survive almost intact, allowing visitors to explore.
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Orford Castle, Orford, Orford, Suffolk , United Kingdom
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Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival takes place in the beautiful setting of Snape Maltings, by the River Alde and close to Aldeburgh. Expect over 100 food and drink producers from Suffolk and cookery demonstrations across 2 stages hosting visiting and local chefs The Festival is family-friendly with free children’s activities and hands-on cooking workshops. Operating as a not-for-profit organisation, the
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Beach: Sizewell Beach View: Fitting snugly into a hollow in the sand dunes behind the shingle of Sizewell beach. What’s on the menu?: Breakfasts, lunches, snacks, fish and chips, drinks
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Beach: Dunwich Beach View: This is a beach hut directly on the sands. What’s on the menu?: Truly great fish and chips, to eat in their retro feel, diner-style restaurant or to take away.
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The Cricketers is a Wetherspoon pub in Ipswich, Suffolk. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm.
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Beach: Southwold Beach View: Located on Southwold seafront at the steps of the Lord Nelson pub, enjoy the sunshine at one of the outside sheltered tables gazing at the stunning views. What’s on the menu?: Open during the summer months, this sassy beach café serves the best Italian coffee, paninis/snacks, fab ice-creams.
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Aldeburgh beach is a quiet and unspoilt shingle beach with some sand exposed at low tide. The beach shelves quite steeply to the sea and has a wide promenade running alongside it. Fishing huts, sheds and working boats are dotted along the beach with freshly caught fish sold daily. Just south of the beach at Aldeburgh is Orford Ness, which
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Sizewell beach is a pebble/sand beach backed by grass, dunes and nuclear power stations. Sizewell is a small fishing village and fishing boats operate from the beach. The beach has a monument to the Dutchmen who tried to escape to England by kayak during World War II to join the Allied Forces. Eight of them reached the English coast. The monument consists of
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Dunwich Heath Coastal Centre and Beach. Remote and beautiful stretch of Suffolk coastline. Coastal lowland heath sandy cliffs and beach, rich in wildlife, offering tranquility and excellent views. The shingle beach backs onto a heath, large reedbeds and woodland. Click here for more details on the National Trust website Parking (free at beach but charged at Heath), toilets, good food,
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Felixstowe has a five-mile coastline on the Suffolk North Sea coast, between the estuaries of the Rivers Deben and Orwell. This stretch is sand and shingle beach gently sloping to the sea within a sheltered bay. The beach is backed by a promenade and then behind the promenade you have Edwardian gardens. Felixstowe is popular with families due to its
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The Orford Ness National Nature Reserve is managed by the National Trust and can be reached by a short ferry trip (charges apply). The spit has multiple walking trails that take you through a stunning landscape and history. A wild and remote shingle spit nature reserve, with a fascinating 20th-century military history, the largest vegetated shingle spit in Europe. Tickets
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Orfordness Lighthouse, in Suffolk, is situated at the end of a 13 mile spit which runs parallel to the coast. The dangers of this area (swift tides, banks and shoals) although not immediately apparent have long been notorious. On one night alone, in 1627, thirty-two ships were cast up on Orfordness with scarcely a survivor amongst their crews.
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Aldeburgh lifeboat station was established in 1851. The station has an RNLI shop.
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Sutton Hoo, 6th to 7th-century burial grounds of the Anglo-Saxon kings of East Anglia, one of which had an undisturbed ship burial. This is a 255-acre estate is managed by the National Trust and has exhibitions and multiple walking routes around the estate. Image by Alex Healing
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