Suffolk

A quiet, largely flat East Anglian county of ancient market towns, a working river waterfront, a shingle coastline dotted with pastel beach huts, and the water meadows that inspired one of England's best-known landscape painters.

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Ipswich

Suffolk's county town, built around a historic waterfront marina and thought to be one of England's oldest continuously occupied towns.

Bury St Edmunds

A Georgian market town laid out around the ruins of a once-great abbey, with a working Theatre Royal to match.

Suffolk Coast

Aldeburgh's shingle beach and music heritage, and Southwold's pier, lighthouse and pastel beach huts, a little further up the coast.

Constable Country

The Stour valley landscapes around Dedham and Flatford that John Constable painted, still recognisably the same fields and mill.

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