Ipswich

Ipswich

Life in Ipswich centres around the water and countryside. Visitors can venture out on to the water, even learning how to sail here themselves. The town celebrates its nautical past annually with a maritime festival offering historic re-enactments and entertainment. Jimmy’s Farm (as seen on TV) is a very popular attraction for children. In the surrounding Suffolk countryside can be found activities, adventure, artistic retreats and wonderful wildlife.

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Orford Castle

Discover one of England's most complete and unusual keeps as you explore every nook and cranny of this 12th century military stronghold, built by Henry II.

Lose yourself in this 800-year-old warren of passageways and secret chambers.

Once a symbol of royal power, this grand residence became home to coastal defences during the Second World War in its life as a radar station.

Charles Burrell Museum

This museum, housed in Burrells original paint shop, tells the story of the Charles Burrell Works – a Thetford business that once employed 350 people and supplied beautiful and reliable steam-powered engines throughout the world.  

Orford Ness National Nature Reserve

Internationally important nature reserve, with a fascinating 20th-century military history

Take a short boat trip to this wild and remote shingle spit, the largest in Europe.

Follow trails through a stunning landscape and a history that will both delight and intrigue.

Discover an internationally important nature reserve littered with debris and unusual, often forbidding, buildings from a sometimes disturbing past.

Bury St Edmonds Abbey

The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.

They include the complete 14th century Great Gate and Norman Tower, and the impressive ruins and altered west front of the immense church.

Orford Ness Pagodas

Set in the internationally renowned Orford Ness nature reserve, the Orford Ness Pagodas are cold war relics on a shingle spit in Suffolk, built to test Britain’s atomic bombs. Here the bombs’ detonators were put in pits and subjected to the shocks they might experience on their way to a target, to ensure they wouldn’t go off prematurely.

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