Sitting on a cliff, this jewel-like park offers stunning views of the North Sea. The best viewpoint is from the cliff top near the Royal Naval Patrol Service Memorial, which commemorates some 2,400 men lost at sea during World War...

In Lowestoft's heyday, Claremont Pier was the landing stage for thousands of day trippers from London. The Coast Development Company’s famous Belle steamers brought them here from 1903 until 1939 when the war started. During the war, the Pier was...

The East Anglia Transport Museum is situated at Carlton Colville just outside the seaside town of Lowestoft in Suffolk. This is a working museum, run entirely by volunteers and the only place in Britain where visitors can not only see,...

An impressive Edwardian-style glass structure, East Point Pavilion houses a restaurant with excellent views of Lowestofts award-winning South Beach. Both meals and snacks are served. Other attractions include Mayhem, a children's soft play area with slides, tubes, nets, ball pools...

Kensington Gardens’ boating lake and Japanese gardens have recently been restored and the gardens are once again popular with residents and visitors alike. Its other attractions include landscaped gardens, a cafe, a pond, two bowling greens, four tennis courts, which...

Fishing boats were already working out of Lowestoft by the middle ages, when the town prospered from trade of Herring. The fish were known locally as Silver Darlings, and, according to the Domesday Book, residents paid rent to the landowner...

Lowestoft Lifeboat Station is one of the oldest in the UK. Dating from 1801, it was also the first station to use sailing boats instead of rowing boats, the first being launched in 1807. Today's state-of-the-art boathouse was built as...

There have been lighthouses at Lowestoft since around 1609. They were needed to guide vessels around the dangerous off the Lowestoft coast. Originally two lights were used, which when aligned, led boats down the Stamford Channel. The channel has...

Lowestoft Maritime Museum is a registered charity and private museum of the Lowestoft and East Suffolk Maritime Society. It is both maintained and manned by members of the society on a voluntary basis with the premises being grant aided by...

The Lowestoft Museum explores the long and fascinating history of this community and the people that live within it. The exhibitions in the museum are related to various different sections of the heritage of the area; politics, social life...

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, also called the “Maker of Lowestoft”, brought the railway to Lowestoft in the 19th century, and the town has never looked back. Along with the railway came the town's prosperity as a seaside resort and a...

The Lowestoft Wind Turbine was completed on Friday 10th of December 2004 and is Suffolk’s first commercial wind turbine. Built by SLP Energy, it took just 4 days to construct and is located at Britain’s most easterly point, Ness point...

Lowestoft's Marina Theatre offers a programme of world-class entertainment, ranging from pop acts such as Tony Christie to the Moscow City Ballet. The theatre is also a residence of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, one of only two outside London. It...

This museum is manned entirely buy volunteers and is usually only open throughout the summer months. The museum has its foundations at the end of the Second World War when ex-members of the Royal navy Patrol Service got together...

This museum houses collections commemorating and illustrating the work of the Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS), which was responsible for minesweeping and anti-submarine patrols during World War II. Exhibits include 17 boards of medals won by RNPS members, including a...

The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club was founded on April 9 1859 apparently with the double intention of encouraging yacht sailing and discouraging the brawling and bad behaviour that went with it. The first club house was built in...

Royal Plain Fountains are a magnet for families on sunny days. They feature 74 vertical jets of water ideal for children's play, especially in hot weather. The fountains are turned on at dawn and off at 11pm every day and...

Somerleyton Hall is a wonderful Anglo-Italian style Victorian Mansion and home to Lord and Lady Somerleyton. It was built by Victorian aristocrat Sir Morton Peto as a measure of his wealth at the time and based on a Jacobean manor...

This long unspoilt sandy beach is a blue-flag winner, which means it is clean, safe and well serviced. Apart from sunbathing and bathing, a raft of other activities are on offer. They include windsurfing, surfing, jet skiing, crazy golf, walking,...

Bordering the south side of Lowestoft Harbour, South Pier is closer to the town centre than its neighbour, Claremont Pier. Its other attractions include four ten-pin bowling lanes, a gift shop, selling everything from surf boards to wind breakers, an...

Sitting right next to Lowestoft's North Beach, Sparrow’s Nest Park has something for everyone. Sea views, bowling greens, bandstands, ponds and ornamental areas are all here. Other attractions include a restaurant and café and a pub. This is also the...

St Nicholas Catholic Church started life as the South Cliff Congregational Church in 1903. It only became a Catholic church in 1995, when it reopened, the former church having been forced to close by falling congregations. The church’s notable features...

The Suffolk Coast and Heaths Path is a long-distance footpath between Lowestoft and Manningtree. Covering 80 km, it passes through the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with its ancient heaths, shingle beaches, crumbling cliffs, waterlogged marshes...

Suffolk Wildlife Park is located five minutes south of Lowestoft off the A12 at the small seaside village of Kessingland. Set in 80 acres there is a choice of taking three different routes around the park that will take you...

The Britten Shopping Centre offers 100,000 square feet of shops and cafés. They include British Home Stores, Thorntons, Dorothy Perkins and for refreshments, The Coffee Pot. Even more shopping possibilities are on offer on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when...

Lowestoft High Street is the oldest part of the town. Its earliest buildings date from the 15th century, but its 18th-century merchants' houses are perhaps its main attraction. Built along the edge of a cliff, they were once famous for...

The Ravine was once known as Gunton Score and one of Lowestoft’s many alleyways leading from the town down to the sea. In 1887, an ornate bridge was built across it, linking North Parade with Bellevue Park. The Victorian bridge...

The town of Lowestoft was originally built on a cliff. Scores were the alleyways leading from the cliff down to the beach. Many were named after local people or after the public houses that stood near the entrance. This one...

Located at the start of Lowestoft’s historic High street, Triangle Market was at the centre of Lowestoft’s original town centre. Markets are still held here on Fridays, beneath purpose-built market canopies. The “Eastern Sails” were designed by John Whiteside, who...

Located in a converted industrial space, this contemporary art centre is one of the hidden gems of the town. An artist led project, the series of studios are open to the public throughout the year and have at their...