Suffolk’s long coastline encompasses a wide variety of historic towns and villages. The largest coastal settlement in the north is Lowestoft, for many years a major fishing port, and other large towns on the Suffolk coast include the attractive resort of Southwold, Aldeburgh, famous for its festival, and Felixstowe at the southern end of the coastline, where the old town sits alongside the country’s largest container port. Between are smaller villages with their own fascinating history, not least Dunwich with its last buildings of the great medieval port. Numerous river estuaries also indent the coast: on the River Deben Woodbridge has a thriving harbour and a rare working tide mill and marking the border with Essex is the River Stour, famous for places associated with the painter John Constable.This fascinating exploration of the history of the towns and villages along the Suffolk coast over the centuries will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in the east of England.
