With its long stretches of sand and shingle beach, historic towns and villages and thriving wildlife, the Suffolk coast’s saltwater-lapped shores are an enchanting place to spend a few days.
Fringing the very eastern edge of England, over the years this land (and sea) beneath huge skies has inspired artists, musicians and writers, and in our modern world still retains its unspoilt character.
A millennium and a half ago, the men and women who walked this part of the great Kingdom of the Angles were known as ‘south folk’, from which the ancient county of Suffolk gets its name. One of the most famous of these ‘south folk’ is the great 20th-century British composer Benjamin Britten, born in Lowestoft in 1913 to a dentist father and a mother who was a keen amateur musician.
After forging his early career in London and spending several years in America, in the 1940s Britten was
