Minsmere Nature Reserve is located along the beautiful Suffolk Heritage Coast near Westleton and Saxmundham. The reserve is run by the Royal society for the...

Leiston Abbey has the extensive remains of a 14th Century monastery set in the beautiful Suffolk countryside just outside the small town of Leiston. The...

Dunwich Heath is run by the National Trust and is set in a Suffolk area of outstanding natural beauty. The area was once part of...

Snape Maltings is a unique, mainly mid 19th Century, collection of granaries and malthouses close beside the River Alde near Saxmundham in Suffolk. The Maltings...

The Long Shop Museum is a steam museum housed in part of the factory where the famous Richard Garrett steam engines were produced in Leiston...

Leiston Film Theatre is Suffolk’s oldest purpose built cinema and can be found along the main high street in the centre of Leiston. On 27th...

Founded in 1966, Halesworth Art Gallery was created to promote painting and sculpture for the benefit of both visitors and artists, and all works are...

Halesworth is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and its church is probably late Saxon in origin, with later additions. Among them, an unusual 18th-century altar....

Market Place is enclosed by some of Southwold's oldest buildings. Among them, the Swan Hotel, which has been here since the 14th century, and “the...

Halesworth Museum is housed in a converted railway station, which is in itself worth visiting. The station, built between 1859 and 1888, has an unusual...

The Cut is a community arts centre. Housed in a converted maltings, it is the only large community arts centre in this area, outside Ipswich...

Built in 1803, Thorpeness Windmill was originally a corn mill at the nearby village of Aldringham. It was purchased and moved to its present site...

The House in the Clouds was originally a water tank, designed in 1923, to provide sufficient water to the village of Thorpeness, in the absence...

St Andrew's Church is half church and half ruin. Both date back to 1493 when the parish was rich and the church large, but in...

Thorpeness Almshouses are an excellent example of the mock Tudor houses created by Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie in the 1920s, as part of his private fantasy...

This library and archive is one of the finest collections in this area of the world. There are a great deal of ancient and...

Thorpeness Meare is a large artificial boating lake originally inspired by extensive flooding in 1910. Landowner Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, the creator of Thorpeness, is said...

Gallery Thea is a ceramics studio and shop. Here, Thea Cutting hand makes ceramics for customers, both local and worldwide. Specialities include gifts for special...

By road, the seaside village of Walberswick is about 20 minutes from Southwold Harbour. By foot-ferry, the journey takes just a few. The road route...

Laxfield & District Museum is dedicated not only to the town itself, but the many communities that surround it and have relied on it for...