Suffolk Sightseeing & Activities Guide

recommended places to visit and things to do in Suffolk


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Suffolk's largest reservoir offers a whole host of activities. Sailing, Windsurfing, fishing, walking & cycling are the most popular. Camping is also offered

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famous for its Grade l listed gardens set within a 400 acre deer park surrounding the moated Tudor Hall. Enchanting herbaceous borders within the walled kitchen garden, also a rose and knot, herb and wild gardens with rare and beautiful plants

Snape Maltings

Saxmundham

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set in Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this is the home of the world famous Aldeburgh Music Festival, with many craft shops and art galleries

Abbey Gardens

Bury St. Edmunds

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stunning gardens encompassing the ruins of the abbey with different themed sections including a herb garden and children's play area. An ideal spot for a picnic

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the Italianate rotunda houses paintings by Gainsborough and Velasquez with a fine collection of silver surrounded by rolling parkland

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moated, Tudor manor with fine furniture and paintings, surrounded by period gardens and offering a variety of hands on Education Days for children

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the history of horse-racing using the latest inter-active, audio visual technologies and with a fine collection of decorative sporting art

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set on a Roman site this farm has many rare breeds that visitors can feed. See sheep shearing, foot trimming, calving & lambing in season

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displays on printing, Waveney, agricultural costumes & a model of the town as it was in 1841. There are also discovery boxes for children to use

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spectacular 15th century timber-framed building with a local history museum and walled garden

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one of the most important Anglo-Saxon burial sites in Europe in the form of a group of low grassy mounds overlooking the River Deben