List of places of interest in Suffolk
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This is a list of places of interest in the British county of Suffolk. See List of places in Suffolk for a list of settlements in Suffolk.
Babergh
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge Cottage | File:Bridge Cottage Flatford.jpg | East Bergholt | 16th-century thatched cottage in the heart of Dedham Vale, notable as the location for works by John Constable. It contains an exhibition of said works. Grade II* listed building. |
| Chapel of St Stephen | File:Bures St Mary - Chapel of St Stephen.jpg | Bures St. Mary | 13th-century chapel built on the site traditionally believed to be the location of the coronation of St. Edmund as King of the East Angles on Christmas Day 855. Grade I listed building. |
| Dedham Vale | File:Cmglee Manningtree Dedham Vale.jpg | Bures St. Mary | Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty comprising the area around the River Stour best known since the artist's lifetime as Constable Country, as it was made famous by the paintings of John Constable. |
| Flatford Mill | File:Flatford-Mill.jpg | Flatford | Watermill built in 1733. The mill was owned by John Constable's father and it is notable for its appearances in his works, particularly The Hay Wain (1821). Grade I listed building. |
| Gainsborough's House | File:Gainsboroughs house Sudbury.JPG | Sudbury | Birthplace of the leading painter Thomas Gainsborough. It is now a museum and gallery. |
| Historic Centre of Lavenham | File:Lavenham High Street.jpg | Lavenham | Village with half-timbered medieval cottages and a circular walk. |
| Kentwell Hall | File:Kentwell 01.jpg | Long Melford | 16th-century country house that has been the background location for numerous film and television productions. Its grounds include gardens and a rare breeds farm. Grade I listed building. |
| Lavenham Guildhall | File:Lavenham Guildhall - geograph.org.uk - 67529.jpg | Lavenham | 16th-century timber-framed building built as the headquarters of the wool guild, which became Lavenham's principal meeting place and centre of business, situated on the town's thriving market place as a result of the town's central position in the East Anglian wool trade. Grade I listed building. |
| Melford Hall | File:Melford Hall 2.jpg | Long Melford | 16th-century country house that is the ancestral seat of the Parker baronets. Grade I listed building. |
| St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham | File:Lavenham - geograph.org.uk - 4044.jpg | Lavenham | Anglican church built in 1525 that is a notable wool church and regarded as the finest example of late Perpendicular Gothic architecture in England. Grade I listed building. |
Forest Heath
Ipswich
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient House, Ipswich | File:Ipswich Ancient House.jpg | Ipswich | 15th-century building notable as a particularly fine example of pargeting. Grade I listed building. |
| Christchurch Mansion and Park | File:Ipswich Christchurch musee.jpg | Ipswich | Tudor mansion built in 1548–50 and situated in parkland. It houses a collection of pottery and glass, a contemporary art gallery and a collection of paintings by artists including John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. Grade I listed building. |
| Endeavour House | File:Endeavour House, home of Suffolk County Council - geograph.org.uk - 1305044.jpg | Ipswich | Headquarters of Suffolk County Council and one of the most energy efficient office buildings in Europe. |
| Historic Centre of Ipswich | File:Ipswich St Nicholas St.jpg | Ipswich | One of England's oldest towns, having been founded under the Roman Empire, and it contains various historic buildings. It is also the cultural and political centre of Suffolk, and by far its largest urban area. |
| Ipswich Dock | File:Tall ship in Ipswich Dock 2.JPG | Ipswich | Historic dock which has been used for trade since at least the 8th Century. A wet dock was constructed in 1842 which was the largest enclosed dock in the United Kingdom at the time. |
| Ipswich Museum | File:Cmglee Ipswich Museum exterior.jpg | Ipswich | Museum of culture, history and natural heritage. |
| Ipswich Town Hall | File:Former Town Hall, Ipswich - geograph.org.uk - 1461160.jpg | Ipswich | Victorian town hall built in 1878, now used as an art gallery. |
| Ipswich Transport Museum | File:Carters Enviro400.JPG | Ipswich | Museum devoted principally to the history of transport and engineering objects made or used in its local area. Its collection of over 100 large objects includes Trams, Buses, cranes and Wheelchairs. |
| Portman Road | File:Cobbold Stand, Ipswich Town Football Club 8418.jpg | Ipswich | Association football stadium that has been the home ground of Ipswich Town F.C. since 1884. |
| Sir Bobby Robson Bridge | File:Sir Bobby Robson Bridge, 1 March 2010 (9).jpg | Ipswich | Pedestrian footbridge over the River Gipping, named after Bobby Robson, ex-manager of Ipswich Town F.C. It is the second highest structure in Ipswich. |
| Willis Building | File:Foster - Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters Ipswich.jpg | Ipswich | One of the earliest buildings designed by Norman Foster after establishing Foster Associates. Grade I listed building. |
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Mid Suffolk
St Edmundsbury
Suffolk Coastal
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldeburgh Martello Tower | File:Martello Tower south of Aldeburgh - geograph.org.uk - 825895.jpg | Aldeburgh | Quatrefoil martello tower, the largest and northernmost of 103 English defensive towers built between 1808 and 1812 to resist a Napoleonic invasion and the only surviving building of the fishing village of Slaughden, which had been washed away by the North Sea by 1936. Grade II* listed building. |
| Bawdsey Manor | File:Bawdsey Manor - geograph.org.uk - 533542.jpg | Bawdsey | Victorian manor house built in 1886 most notable for the role it had to play in the development of radar during the Second World War, during its time as an Air Ministry research station. Grade II* listed building. |
| Burgh Windmill | File:Burgh Mill, Suffolk 2005.jpg | Burgh | Tower mill built in 1842 which has been converted to residential accommodation. Grade II listed building. |
| Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge | File:Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge.jpg | Woodbridge | Tower mill built in 1836 which has been restored to working order. Grade II listed building. |
| Fort Green Mill, Aldeburgh | File:Fort Green Mill, Aldeburgh.jpg | Aldeburgh | Tower mill built in 1824 which has been converted to residential accommodation. |
| Framlingham Castle | File:Franglingham Castle 01.jpg | Framlingham | Medieval castle established in 1148 with a curtain wall, an unusual feature at the time. Grade I listed building. |
| Friston Windmill | File:Friston Post Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1970480.jpg | Friston | Conserved post mill built in 1812. Grade II* listed building. |
| Greyfriars, Dunwich | File:DunwichGreyfriars.jpg | Dunwich | Ruins of a Franciscan friary founded before 1277, but abandoned in 1289 due to coastal erosion. Grade II* listed building. |
| Havergate Island | File:Saebelschnaebler (Recurvirostra avosetta).jpg | Orford | The only island in Suffolk and a marshy RSPB nature reserve notable for its populations of avocets and terns. |
| Historic Centre of Dunwich and its Seafront | File:Remains of Franciscan Monastery, Dunwich - geograph.org.uk - 74176.jpg | Dunwich | Former capital of the Kingdom of the East Angles, but most of the town has been lost to the sea due to coastal erosion beginning in 1286, events for which it has become famous. The town features the remains of many churches, friaries and a leper hospital. |
| Historic Centre of Felixstowe and its Seafront | File:Felixstowe beach -Suffolk -England -14Aug2008.jpg | Felixstowe | Edwardian seaside town and port, the largest container port in the United Kingdom. |
| Historic Centre of Woodbridge and its Seafront | File:Woodbridge1.jpeg | Woodbridge, Suffolk | Town with over 1,100 years of recorded history with historic buildings and harbour. |
| House in the Clouds | File:The House in the Clouds, Thorpeness.jpg | Thorpeness | Water tower built in 1923 with the appearance of a weatherboarded building more in keeping with Thorpeness's mock-Tudor and Jacobean style, except seeming to float above the trees. Grade II listed building. |
| Landguard Fort | File:Landguard Fort - geograph.org.uk - 982489.jpg | Felixstowe | Fort built by James I to guard the entrance to Harwich. Grade I listed building. |
| Leiston Abbey | File:Eastbridge Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 2390376.jpg | Theberton | Ruins of an Augustinian abbey built in 1182 by Ranulf de Glanvill. Grade I listed building. |
| Long Shop Museum | File:Long Shop Museum, Leiston - geograph.org.uk - 184752.jpg | Leiston | Industrial museum dedicated to the history of Richard Garrett & Sons who manufactured agricultural machinery, Steam engines and Trolleybuses in Leiston. Grade II* listed building. |
| Orford Castle | File:Orford Castle Keep.jpg | Orford | Medieval castle with a well-preserved keep, described as the 'one of the most remarkable keeps in England', built by Henry II from 1165 to 1173 to consolidate royal power in the region. It is of a unique design and probably based on Byzantine architecture. Grade I listed building. |
| Orford Ness | File:Orfordness transmitting station.jpg | Orford | Cuspate foreland shingle spit that is an internationally important site for nature conservation, as it contains a significant portion of the European reserve of vegetated shingle habitat, which is internationally scarce, highly fragile and very easily damaged. |
| Orfordness Beacon | File:The 'Black Beacon', Orford Ness - geograph.org.uk - 935140.jpg | Orford | Early radio navigation system introduced in July 1929. It allowed the angle to the station to be measured from any aircraft or ship with a conventional radio receiver, and was accurate to about a degree. |
| Orfordness Lighthouse | File:Orford Ness Lighthouse, Suffolk.jpg | Orford | Lighthouse built in 1792 and decommissioned in 2013. |
| RAF Bentwaters | File:Former RAF Bentwaters ATC control tower ).JPG | Tunstall | Former Royal Air Force station used by the RAF during the Second World War and United States Air Force during the Cold War. It now forms part of Bentwaters Cold War Museum. |
| RAF Woodbridge | Woodbridge | Former Royal Air Force military airfield constructed in 1943 to assist damaged aircraft to land on their return from raids over Germany during the Second World War. It was then used by the United States Air Force during the Cold War and split into Woodbridge Airfield and Rock Barracks in 2006. | |
| RSPB Minsmere | File:Minsmere 0903.jpg | Minsmere | RSPB nature reserve covering areas of reed bed, lowland heath, lowland wet grassland, and shingle vegetation. It has populations of Eurasian bitterns, Western marsh harriers and Pied avocets and is a birdwatching site. |
| Saxtead Green Windmill | File:Saxstead Green Postmill - geograph.org.uk - 2389895.jpg | Saxtead | Restored 18th-century post mill. Grade II* listed building. |
| Skoulding's Mill, Kelsale | File:Kelsale Mill.jpg | Kelsale | Tower mill built in 1856 which has been converted to residential accommodation. Grade II listed building. |
| Snape Maltings | File:Snape maltings concert hall.jpeg | Snape | Arts complex that is one of the main sites of the annual Aldeburgh Festival originally used for the malting of barley for the brewing of beer. |
| St. Andrew's Church, Bramfield | File:Bramfield-g3.jpg | Bramfield, Suffolk | 13th-century Anglican church with the only flint-built detached round tower in Suffolk, which was possibly built as a defensive stronghold for the nearby manor house. Grade I listed building. |
| Suffolk Coast and Heaths | File:Dunwich seafront today.JPG | Aldeburgh | Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covering much of the Suffolk coastline, including ancient woodland, shingle beaches, mudflats, reed beds, salt marsh and heathland. |
| Sutton Hoo | File:Sutton Hoo burial ground 4.jpg | Woodbridge | Site of two 6th- and early 7th-century cemeteries. One contained an undisturbed ship burial, including a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance, most of which are now in the British Museum in London. |
| Thorpeness Windmill | File:Thorpeness windmill.jpg | Thorpeness | Post mill built in 1803 in Aldringham and moved to Thorpeness in 1923. Grade II listed building. |
| Tricker's Mill, Woodbridge | File:Trickers Mill - Woodbridge - geograph.org.uk - 2045734.jpg | Woodbridge | Tower mill built in 1818 which has been incorporated to a sheltered housing scheme. It is the oldest intact tower mill in Suffolk. Grade II listed building. |
| Westwood Marshes Mill, Walberswick | File:Walberswick windpump.jpg | Walberswick | Derelict 18th-century tower mill. It is the oldest surviving tower mill in Suffolk. |
| Woodbridge Tide Mill | File:Woodbridge Tide Mill (1).jpg | Woodbridge | Tide mill built c. 1536. It is a rare example of a fully functioning tide mill, whose water wheel is capable of grinding wholemeal flour. Grade I listed building. |
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Waveney
| Name | Image | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackshore Mill, Reydon | File:Blackshore Mill, Reydon.jpg | Reydon | Conserved tower mill built c. 1890. Grade II listed building. |
| Blundeston Windmill | File:Blundeston windmill June2011.jpg | Blundeston | Tower mill built c. 1820 which has been converted to residential accommodation. |
| Bungay Castle | File:Bungay Castle, 2012.jpg | Bungay | Ruins of a Norman keep and bailey castle built in 1100 by Roger Bigod of Norfolk. Grade I listed building. |
| Church of Holton St. Peter | File:Holton-g1.jpg | Holton St. Peter | 11th-century Norman church with the tallest round church tower in the county. Grade II* listed building. |
| Corton Windmill | File:Corton windmill.jpg | Corton | Tower mill built in 1837 which has been converted to residential accommodation. Grade II listed building. |
| East Anglia Transport Museum | File:London Trolleybus & Tram at EATM.jpg | Lowestoft | Open-air transport museum, with numerous historic public transport vehicles, including many in full working order. |
| Flixton Road Mill, Bungay | File:Bungay, Flixton Road Mill.jpg | Bungay | Tower mill built in 1830 which has been truncated and converted to residential accommodation. Grade II listed building. |
| Herringfleet Windmill | File:Herringfleet Smock Drainage Wind pump - geograph.org.uk - 1919532.jpg | Herringfleet | Restored smock mill built c. 1820 which has been restored to working order. It is the oldest working smock mill in Suffolk. Grade II* listed building. |
| Historic Centre of Lowestoft and its Seafront | File:Lowestoft beach and outer harbour.jpg | Lowestoft | Historic port town, which developed due to the fishing industry, and a traditional seaside resort. It has a long history, some of the earliest evidence of settlement in Britain being found here. It has wide, sandy beaches, two piers and a number of other tourist attractions and historic buildings. |
| Holton Windmill | File:Holton Mill - geograph.org.uk - 2576668.jpg | Holton | Preserved post mill built in 1749. It is the oldest surviving windmill with its sails in Suffolk. Grade II listed building. |
| Lound Windmill | File:The Old Mill - geograph.org.uk - 250480.jpg | Lound, Suffolk | Tower mill built in 1837 which has been converted to residential accommodation. |
| Lowestoft Lighthouse | File:Lowestoft Denes lighthouse - geograph.org.uk - 229057.jpg | Lowestoft | Lighthouse built in 1874 to give warning of the dangerous sandbanks around the coast. It is one of only two working lighthouses in Suffolk. Grade II listed building. |
| Lowestoft War Memorial Museum | File:Lowestoft War Memorial Museum.jpg | Lowestoft | Headquarters of the Royal Naval Patrol Service during the Second World War which now houses a museum dedicated to the effect of the First and Second World Wars. |
| Mettingham Castle | File:Entrance to Mettingham Castle - geograph.org.uk - 984718.jpg | Mettingham | Fortified manor house built by Sir John de Norwich in 1342. Grade II listed building. |
| Mincarlo | File:Trawler Mincarlo, Lowestoft, 13th June 2009 (17).JPG | Lowestoft | Last surviving fishing trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet and last built in the town. It is now maintained as a museum. |
| Ness Point | File:Ness Point Sunrise.jpg | Lowestoft | The most easterly point in the United Kingdom, marked by a direction marker, known as Euroscope. It is also the location of Britain's tallest wind turbine. |
| Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum | File:Jet at Flixton air museum - geograph.org.uk - 1431085.jpg | Flixton | Museum collection of aircraft and aviation-related artefacts |
| Somerleyton Hall | File:Somerleyton 5.JPG | Somerleyton | Country house built in 1604 in Tudor-Jacobean style before being transformed into an Anglo-Italian masterpiece in 1843. Its garden contains a yew hedge maze considered one of the finest in the country. Grade II* listed building. |
| Southwold Lighthouse | File:Southwold -Suffolk -lighthouse -23Sept2007.jpg | Southwold | Lighthouse built in 1889. It is one of only two working lighthouses in Suffolk and a prominent local landmark. Grade II listed building. |
| Southwold Pier | File:Southwold Pier3 KevinScottNL 2005.jpg | Southwold | Historic pier built in 1900 that includes a collection of modern coin-operated novelty machines designed by Tim Hunkin. |
| St Andrew's Church, Covehithe | File:The Church, Covehithe.jpg | Covehithe | Redundant Anglican church built in the 17th century within the walls of a larger 14th-century church. Grade I listed building. |
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