Places to Visit
 SuffolkSuffolk is a historic and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia, United Kingdom. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich, at [show location on an interactive map] 52°03′22″N, 1°08′59″E and other important towns include Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds. Felixstowe is one of the largest container ports in Europe.[1]
The county is low-lying with few hills, and is largely wetland habitat and arable land with the wetlands of The Broads in the North, and the Suffolk Coast and Heaths is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Suffolk was part of the kingdom of East Anglia which was settled by the Angles in the 5th century.
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Bury St Edmunds Abbey Bury St. EdmundsSuffolkThe extensive ruins of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monastery in England, shrine of St Edmund.
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Felixstowe Museum FelixstoweSuffolkDisplay rooms looking at local social and military history, including a new exhibition in 2007 focusing on the 25th anniversary of the Falkands War.
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Framlingham Castle WoodbridgeSuffolkFramlingham is a magnificent example of a late 12th-century castle. Built by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, the castle, together with Framlingham Mere, was designed both as a stronghold and as a symbol of power and status.
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Landguard Fort FelixstoweSuffolkThe site of the last opposed invasion of England in 1667 and the first land battle of the Royal Marines.
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Leiston Abbey LeistonSuffolkOne of Suffolk’s most impressive monastic ruins, of a 14th-century abbey of Premonstratensian ‘white canons’, with a 16th-century brick gatehouse.
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Melford Hall SudburySuffolkOne of East Anglia's finest Tudor mansions
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